Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:2nd Jun '23
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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.
"Unlike books that reduce rightwing populism in the global south to a few scattered footnotes, Antony Pereira’s edited volume illustrates the advantages of putting Jair Bolsonaro and Latin American rightwing populism at the center of comparative analysis. Right-wing Populism in Latin American and Beyond appeals to readers interested in theoretical, normative, and political-economic debates. Using cases from Latin America, Asia, Europe, and U.S. the contributors to this volume offer novel conceptual insights focusing on the political economy of rightwing populism, its relationships with civil society, its impact on democracies, and on how and why populists politicized and mismanaged the COVID 19 epidemic."
Carlos de la Torre, editor of The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism
"This is a timely volume on right-wing populism and its current challenge to democracy. Initial chapters discuss the thorny problem of defining populism, followed by rich empirical chapters on a wide range of cases. Though centrally focused on Latin America, the volume is impressive in its broadly comparative approach, encompassing cases in Western Europe and the Philippines, as well as special attention to India and Brazil. A final empirical section presents valuable and wide-ranging perspectives on Bolsonaro’s pernicious approach to COVID politics in Brazil. A welcome contribution combining deep case knowledge with comparative insights."
Ruth Berins Collier, Heller Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
"This timely and incisive volume will be required reading for students of right wing populism and all concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies. The illuminating scholarly contributions by leading experts assembled by Anthony Pereira offer a wealth of new insights into right wing authoritarian movements in Brazil, the rest of Latin America and beyond."
Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III University, Madrid
ISBN: 9781032318530
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 802g
318 pages