Populism and Accountability

Antonio Maria Baggio is Professor of Political Philosophy at Sophia University Institute (IUS) of Loppiano (Florence, Italy), where is he also Director of the Center for Research in Politics and Human Rights. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Rome, Italy).Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli is Associate Professor of General and Applied Accounting at the University of Bologna (Italy). She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Ancona. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility; ethical, social and environmental accounting and accountability; sustainability in tourist enterprises; and responsible and accessible tourism.Samuel O Idowu is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at London Metropolitan University (UK). His main research focuses on corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governance, ethics and accounting. He has led several edited books in CSR and is the editor-in-chief of two Springer’s reference books; Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility and Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility.

• ​Populism and Accountability: Interdisciplinary researches - An Introduction.- Part 1: Populism and Accountability: Introductory Studies.- Populism and its Definitions. Interpretations and Perspectives of a Multifaceted Political Model.- Accountability and Stakeholder engagement: politics and accounting in dialogue to improve democracy.- Part 2: Accountability versus Populism: Intersections between Politics and Business Economicis.- Business democratic value at stake: a Business Ethics Perspective on embedded social and political responsibility.- Property, responsibility and the community. Toward a new concept of property.- Citizens participation in deliberation process and multidimensional accountability: a possible virtuous relationship.- Accounting systems of Post-Communist Balkan States: Towards accounting harmonization?.- The role of local authorities in opposing populism through social accountability.- Part 3: The role oflocal authorities in opposing populism through social accountability.- In search of the relationship between democracy and populism from a multidimensional perspective. Some paths: accountability, deliberation, co-governance.- Sense of belonging and disillusionment, a phenomenological reading of community dynamics.- Accountability and Populism: an anthropological perspective.- Part 4: Leaders and Masses in Populist Phenomena.- Populism and Political Leadership.- The psychological roots of populism.- The populist leader: a profile that emerged from the investigation perspective of phenomenological psychopathology.