Populism and the Mirror of Democracy

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Populism increases awkward questions about sleek varieties of democracy. It usually represents the grotesque face of the folk. it's neither the top type of democracy nor its enemy. it really is, particularly, a reflect within which democracy may possibly reflect on itself, warts and all, in a discovery of itself and what it lacks. This definitive assortment, edited through one of many worlds pre-eminent gurus on populism, Francisco Panizza, combines theoretical essays with a few particularly commissioned case reviews on populist politics.

CONTENTS
Introduction: Populism and the replicate of Democracy 1
FRANCISCO PANIZZA
1 Populism: What's in a reputation? 32
ERNESTO LACLAU
2 The 'End of Politics' and the problem of Right-wing Populism 50
CHANTAL MOUFFE
3 Populism as an inner outer edge of Democratic Politics 72
BENJAMIN ARDITI
4 Skinhead Conservatism: A Failed Populist undertaking 99
OSCAR REYES
5 Constitutive Violence and the Nationalist Imaginary: 118
The Making of 'The People' in Palestine and 'Former Yugoslavia'
GLENN BOWMAN
6 From Founding Violence to Political Hegemony: 144
The Conservative Populism of George Wallace
JOSEPH LOWNDES
7 Populism and the recent correct in English Canada 172
DAVID LAYCOCK
8 Populism or well known Democracy? The UDF, Workerism 202
and the fight for Radical Democracy in South Africa
DAVID HOWARTH
9 faith and Populism in modern Greece 224
YANNIS STAVRAKAKIS
10 The Discursive Continuities of the Menemist Rupture 250
SEBASTIAN BARROS
Notes 275
Bibliography 317
List of individuals 339
Index 343

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To make it perfectly clear whose side it was on , this 'new ' government was to display an especial anti­ popular ferocity a few months later, by remorselessly massacring thousands of communard workers . 3 The communist party, such as it was conceived by the Russian Social Democratic Workers ' Party and then the Bolsheviks , is a structure which, derived from a rigorous 3 It is essential to reconstruct the genesis of the (parliamentar y ) concept of ' the left' starting from its 'republican' origins - namely, the government composed of the left opposition to Napoleon, which took power in 1 8 70 .

What counts for our ' civilized' men is : ' Are you with us or against us? ' This gives the phrase ' with us ' the meaning o f a slavish inclusion in the planetary market economy, organ­ ized in the relevant countries by corrupt personnel , in close collaboration with a counterrevolutionary police force and army, trained , equipped and commanded by officers , secret agents and rac keteers who are just like back home . ' Friendly countries ' such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico and many others are just as despotic and corrupt as Ben Ali 's Tunisia or Mubarak's E gypt, if not much more so.

43 5 Riots and the West Historical riots represent a challenge for the state because, in demanding the departure of those who rule it, they invariably expose it to a brutal , unprepared change, even to the possibility of its complete collapse (that is precisely what happened in Iran , thirty years ago, to the Shah's monarchical re gime) . At the same time, riots do not possess all the keys - far from it to the nature and extent of the change to which they expose the state . What is going to happen in the state is in no wise prefigured by a riot.

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