Description
With contributions from 22 scholars and empirical material from 29 countries within and beyond Latin America, this book identifies subtypes of populism to further understand right-wing populist movements, parties, leaders, and governments. It seeks to examine whether the term populism continues to have any validity and what relationship(s) it has to democracy.
- Part 1 is an exploration of populism as an analytical concept. It asks how populism can and should be defined; whether populism can be broken down into subtypes; and whether the use of the term within and beyond Latin America in recent scholarship has been consistent.
- Part 2 focuses on political economy, and specifically whether political economy explanations of both the causes and consequences of right-wing populism fit recent cases in Latin America, Europe, and the Philippines.
- Part 3 examines institutions, and in particular institutions of coercion and digital communication. It contains chapter studies on various aspects of populism in Brazil, Spain, India, and Italy.
- Part 4 concerns the coronavirus pandemic and the specific case of right-wing populism in Brazil. It examines the Bolsonaro government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and how that response exacerbated the health crisis and reduced the government’s popularity.
Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond is a timely and socially relevant contribution to the understanding of contemporary challenges to democracy. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners eager to understand the rise in right-wing agendas across the globe.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Theory 2. Intellectual Imperialism and Selection Bias in the Study of Populism 3. Popular Sovereignty, Institutionality, and the Dilemmas of Democratizing Democracy 4. Populisms in Power: Plural and Ambiguous Part 2: Political Economy 5. Economic Globalization and Populism in Latin America and Beyond 6. The Political Economy and Political Psychology of Public Support for Right-Wing Populism in Comparative Perspective 7. Voting for Violence: The New Middle-class and Authoritarian Populist Presidents in the Philippines and Brazil Part 3: Institutions 8. Populism and Anti-Globalism on Twitter: Similarities of Conspiratorial Discourse and Content Diffusion On Social Networks In Brazil, Spain, Latin America, and Italy 9. "I will end everything": Brazilian far-right populism, scorched earth politics and the erasure of bureaucrats’ memories 10. Narendra Modi and The Police In India: National Populism, Politics of Fear, Victimization, and Cultural Policing 11. Bolsonaro’s Brazil: National Populism and The Role of The Police Part 4: Covid-19 12. The Hydroxychloroquine Alliance: How Far-Right Leaders and Alt-Science Preachers Came Together to Tout a Miraculous Drug 13. Populism, the Pandemic, and the Crisis of Bolsonarismo 14. Four-Squared Denialism: The Uses of Fake News for The Political Construction of Identity in Bolsonaro's Populist Government During the Pandemic 15. "Enfrentar vírus como homem": Bolsonaro’s Populism and Performing Hegemonic Masculinity During the COVID-19 Pandemic 16. Conclusion
