Contemporary Us Populism in Comparative Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Kirk Hawkins studies populism and Latin American politics. He wrote Venezuela's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2010), co-authored Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge, 2010), and co-edited The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory, and Analysis (2019). He currently directs Team Populism. Levente Littvay researches the psychology of populism, survey and quantitative methodology. He is an academic co-convener of the European Consortium for Political Research Methods Schools, and Team Populism's head of Team Survey. Klappentext Insights of comparativist political scholars explore how populism impacted the 2016 U.S. elections, as well as its continued effects today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The concept of populism: putting leaders in context; 3. The causes of populism: explaining the victory with Ethan Busby (Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, US); 4. The consequences of populism and how to mitigate them; 5. Conclusion; References.

Product details

• Authors: Kirk Hawkins, Kirk (Brigham Young University Hawkins, Levente Littvay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108456821
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45682-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in American Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, populism; 2016 US election; democracy; public opinion; Trump