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The Comeback of Populism

Transatlantic Perspectives

Herausgeber: Paul, Heike | Prutsch, Ursula | Gebhardt, Jürgen

Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Bd. 21

2019

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Abstract

“Populism” is a fuzzy term. It neither identifies a specific political program nor does it clearly situate political positions along a left-to-right spectrum. Instead, it refers to a strategy of communication and a style of political performance. This volume sheds light on the resurgence of populism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Contemporary populisms need to be understood in their cultural and political specificities as well as in their global interrelation and outreach. They often share an authoritarianism along with anti-establishment resentments while posing as expressing the ‘voice of the people.’ Real or imagined scenarios of threat are met with a rhetoric of emancipation from victimization, yet this emancipatory zeal is couched in a rhetoric of exclusion and, even, nativism. Frank Decker, Akwugo Emejulu, D.S. Hillygus, Michael Hochgeschwender, Donatella Izzo, Carlos de la Torre, and Hans Vorländer (et al.) examine populism’s simplifications and mystifications.

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Cover Cover
Note on the Editors II
Titel III
Imprint IV
Table of Contents V
Heike Paul: Introduction 1
Hans Vorländer: Populism and Modern Democracy – An Outline 13
Frank Decker: Populism in Germany and Abroad 29
Jürgen Gebhardt: “We the People”: Popular Sovereignty, National Identity, and the Democratic Principle 45
Michael Hochgeschwender: US-Populism in the Late Nineteenth Century 55
Jack Zhou, D. Sunshine Hillygus, John Aldrich: Understanding the Trump Win: Populism, Partisanship, and Polarization in the 2016 Election 65
Laura Vorberg: 89
Michael Oswald: Jobs, Free Trade, and a Conspiracy: Trump’s Use of Producerism 109
Heike Paul: Authoritarian Populism, White Supremacy, and „Volkskörper“-Sentimentalism 127
Simon Strick: Right-Wing World-Building: Affect and Sexuality in the ‘Alternative Right’ 157
Akwugo Emejulu: Feminism for the 99%: Towards a Populist Feminism? 183
Nicole Anna Schneider: Redefining “We, the People”: Black Lives Matter and the Democratization of Political Culture 189
Sascha Pöhlmann: Missing the People: Populist Aesthetics and Unpopular Resistance 215
Donatella Izzo: Pop(e)ulism: Populist Miracles and Neoliberal Theologies 235
Carlos de la Torre: What Can We Learn from Latin America to Understand Trump’s Populism? 253
Ursula Prutsch: Populism in Brazil: Getúlio Vargas and Jair Bolsonaro 275
Notes on Contributors 293
Backcover 297