Democracies and the Populist Challenge

YVES M?NY is Professor of Political Science and President of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is co-author (with M.Rhodes) of The Future of European Welfare: A New Social Contract and (with A. Knapp) Government and Politics in Western Europe. - YVES SUREL is Research Associate at the Centre d'?tude de la vie politique francaise, Sciences Po, Paris.

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors The Constitutive Ambiguity of Populism: M.Mény & Y.Surel PART I: MAKING SENSE OF POPULISM Taking Politics to the People: Populism as the Ideology of Democracy; M.Canovan Populism, the Democratic Question, and Contemporary Governance; Y.Papadopoulos Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics; P.Taggart Populist Democracy vs. Party Democracy; P.Mair PART II: IDENTIFYING COUNTRY VARIATIONS The United States: Populism as Political Strategy; A.Ware Populism Italian Style; M.Tarchi Populism in the French Party System; Y.Surel Evil or the 'Engine of Democracy'? Populism and Party Competition in Austria; W.C.Müller PART III: COMPARING NATIONAL CASES Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy: Populism and Party Systems; H.Kitschelt Conditions Favouring the Success (and Failure) of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies; H.G.Betz In the Name of Peasantry, the Proletariat, and the People: Populisms in East Europe; C.Mudde References Index