Laura Grattan

Populism's Power

Radical Grassroots Democracy in America

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Produktbeschreibung

In Populism's Power, Laura Grattan looks at how populism cultivates the aspirations of ordinary people to exercise power over their everyday lives and their collective fate. She considers a range of populist moments and reopens the idea that grassroots movements can play a key role in democratizing power and politics in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780190277635
• ISBN-10: 0190277637
• Artikelnr.: 47863071

Autorenporträt

Laura Grattan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Chapter One: Aspirational Democratic Populism: Enacting Popular Power
at the Horizons of Democracy
* Chapter Two: 'Fanning the Spark of Hope': Populism's Rebellious
Commonwealth
* Chapter Three: America's Populist Imaginary: Brought to You by
Chevrolet and Leonard Cohen
* Chapter Four: Populist Resonances in the Twenty-first Century: The
Tea Party and Occupy
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index