Jan-Werner Müller

What Is Populism? (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'There is no better guide to the populist passions of the present' The New York Times

Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez - populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism?

Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism bring government closer to the people or is it a threat to democracy? Who are "the people" anyway and who can speak in their name? These questions have never been more pressing.

In this provocative book, Jan-Werner Müller argues that at populism's core is a rejection of pluralism. Populists will always claim that they and they alone represent the people and their true interests. Contrary to conventional wisdom, populists can govern on the basis of their claim to exclusive moral representation of the people: if populists have enough power, they will end up creating an authoritarian state that excludes all those not considered part of the proper "people". Proposing a number of concrete strategies for how liberal democrats should best deal with populists, Müller shows how to counter their claims to speak exclusively for "the silent majority".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141987385
• Artikelnr.: 49398690

Autorenporträt

Jan-Werner Müller is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author of several books, most recently Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe. He contributes regularly to London Review of Books, the Guardian, and the New York Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Is Everyone a Populist? 1
1. What Populists Say 7
2. What Populists Do, or Populism in Power 41
3. How to Deal with Populists 75
Conclusion: Seven Theses on Populism 101
Notes 105
Acknowledgments 121