Palgrave Handbook of Populism

​Michael Oswald is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Passau, Germany, and the author of Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

• Part I Populism : Introduction to & some Reflections on the Concept.- Chapter 1: The New Age of Populism – Reapproaching a Diffuse Concept.- Part II : Theoretical Critique.- Chapter 2: The Past and Present of Populism.- Chapter 3: Populism is Hegemony is Politics? Ernesto Laclau’s Theory of Populism.- Chapter 4: An Antipodean Populism? Winston Peters, New Zealand First, and the Problems of Misclassification.- Chapter 5: A Critique of Left-Wing Populism – Critical Materialist and Social-Psychological Perspectives.- Part III: The Political Psychology of Populism & its Affective Underpinnings.- Chapter 6: The Psychology of Populism.- Chapter 7: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support.- Chapter 8: From Specific Worries to Generalized Anger – The Emotional Dynamics of Right-Wing Populist Party Support.- Part IV: Authoritarian Populism & Fascism.- Chapter 9: Fascism and Populism.- Chapter 10: Populism and Authoritarianism.-Chapter 11: Authoritarian Populism and Collective Memory Manipulation.- Chapter 12: The (almost) Forgotten Elitist Sources of Right-Wing Populism.- Part V: Economic Populism, Inequality & Crises.- Chapter 13: Populism and the Economics of Antitrust.- Chapter 14: The Red Herring of ‘Economic Populism’.- Chapter 15: Populist Mobilization in the United States: Adding Political Economy to Cultural Explanations.- Part VI: Populism & Gender.- Chapter 16: Right-Wing Populism and Gender.- Chapter 17: The Gendered Politics of Right-Wing Populism and Intersectional Feminist Contestations”.- Chapter 18: Popular Sovereignty and (Non)Recognition in Venezuela: On the Coming into Political Being of El Pueblo.- Part VII: New Populisms and Cleavages.- Chapter 19: Environmental Populism.- Chapter 20: Medical populism.- Chapter 21: Global Populism.- Chapter 22: Populism and the Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Divide.- Chapter 23: (Populism and) the Recasting of the Ideological Landscape of Liberal Democracies.- Part VIII: Populism Discourses.- Chapter 24: The Political Language of Islamic Populism.- Chapter 25: Populism, Anti-populism and Post-truth.- Chapter 26: Experience Narratives and Populist Rhetoric in US Congressional Primaries.- Chapter 27: The Framing of Right-Wing Populism. Intricacies of ‘Populist’ Narratives, Emotions, and Resonance.- Chapter 28: Populism and Collective memory.- Part IX: Populists in Office.- Chapter 29: Populism in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 30: Populism in Africa and the Anti-Corruption Trope in Nigeria’s Politics.- Chapter 31: Populism Under Former Liberation Movements as Governments in Southern Africa: The Cases of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.- Chapter 32: Venezuela- The Institutionalization of Authoritarian Populism.- Chapter 33: Populist Neo-Imperialism: A New Take on Populist Foreign Policy.- Part X: Strategic Populism & Societal Support.- Chapter 34: Populism as an Implementation of National Biopolitics. The Case of Poland.- Chapter 35:Understanding the Infiltration of Right-Wing Populist Positions Within Unsuspected Groups: The Case of Professional Social Workers.- Chapter 36: Clarifying our Populist Moment(s): Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.- Part XI: Consequences of Populism & Anti-Populist Discourse.- Chapter 37: Polarization as a Result of Populism? Evidence from Plenary Debates in the Bundestag.- Chapter 38: The Enemy in my House: How Right-Wing Populism Shifted the Debate About Citizenship in France.- Chapter 39: The Democracy’s ‘Resolved’ Dilemma. A Theory of Turnout Inequality Reducing (Right) Populist Parties.- Chapter 40: Counter Strategies in Dealing with Populism.