Populism

Benjamin Moffitt is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2019-2021) at the National School of Arts, ACU (Melbourne).

• Acknowledgements 1.   Why Populism Matters 2.   What is Populism? 3.   Populism, Nationalism & Nativism 4.   Populism & Socialism 5.   Populism & Liberalism 6.   Populism & Democracy References

"Employing a political theory perspective, Moffitt elucidates populism’s affinities and tensions with major left- and right-wing ideologies and develops novel insights into reactionary populists’ opportunistic invocation of liberal values."Kurt Weyland, University of Texas at Austin "The first book to analyse populism in its broader ideological context by relating it to nationalism, socialism, liberalism and democracy, Benjamin Moffitt’s  accessible and concise Populism is essential reading for anyone speaking, thinking or writing about this phenomenon."Cas Mudde, University of Georgia"It is undoubtedly the introductory work that I would recommend to those seeking to get a definitive overview of the discipline, equally to undergraduate students and to more experienced scholars. Moffitt’s Populism is an impressive piece of scholarship that is both didactic and ambitious, with the potential to become a standard introduction to the study of populism."Théo Aiolfi, University of Warwick