Civilizational Populism in Democratic Nation-States

Civilizational Populism in Democratic Nation-States
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9789819942626
ISBN-13 : 9819942624
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Civilizational Populism in Democratic Nation-States by : Ihsan Yilmaz

This edited book examines the growing worldwide phenomenon of civilizational populism in democratic nation-states and brings together research that explores this in a wide variety of religious, political, and geographic contexts. In doing so, the book shows how, from Europe to India and Pakistan, and from Indonesia to the Americas, populists increasingly define national belonging through civilizational identity, claiming that the world can be divided into several religion-defined civilizations with incompatible values. The volume also discusses the complex relationship between civilizational populism, democracy and nationalism and shows how nationalists often use civilizational identity to help define ingroups and outgroups within their society. With this, the book investigates the salience of the concept, its widespread and influential nature, and also explains how populists construct civilizational identities, and the factors behind the rise of civilizational populism.

Twenty-First Century Populism

Twenty-First Century Populism
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780230592100
ISBN-13 : 0230592104
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Twenty-First Century Populism by : D. Albertazzi

Twenty-First Century Populism analyses the phenomenon of sustained populist growth in Western Europe by looking at the conditions facilitating populism in specific national contexts and then examining populist fortunes in those countries. The chapters are written by country experts and political scientists from across the continent.

The Turkish Malaise - A Critical Essay

The Turkish Malaise - A Critical Essay
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Publisher : Transnational Press London
Total Pages : 99
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ISBN-10 : 9781801350778
ISBN-13 : 1801350779
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Turkish Malaise - A Critical Essay by : Cengiz Aktar

No one can predict today how Turkey will evolve; which spirit will mark the country’s future. Who could have predicted the turn it has taken in recent years after having been a rising star in the early 2000s, a candidate for the European club, “the” model to follow, especially for Muslim countries seeking justice and prosperity? The failure of its candidacy, in which Europe has its share, has been the prelude to its progressive de-Westernisation accompanied by bellicosity on all fronts, at home and abroad. Western countries are trying to manage this “Turkish crisis” between incomprehension and blind detachment, between appeasement and complicity, between containment and apprehension of seeing this large country decompose in its turn. In this concise and well-documented essay, the author provides analytical tools to understand the split of a society, between state, nation, religion, imperial myth and the West. The analysis is complemented by interviews with the sociologist Nilüfer Göle and the historian Étienne Copeaux, both of whom have witnessed Turkey’s never-ending transformation.

Democracies and the Populist Challenge

Democracies and the Populist Challenge
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781403920072
ISBN-13 : 1403920079
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracies and the Populist Challenge by : Y. Meny

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised by the role of the elites and the limits put on the popular will by liberal constitutionalism.

Populism and Democracy

Populism and Democracy
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9490947237
ISBN-13 : 9789490947231
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Populism and Democracy by : Sascha Hardt

Are liberal democracies in decline? If they are, what role does populism play in this? What can and should democracies do to defend their core features against 'democratic decay'? And which features can be considered essential? These are difficult questions further complicated by the realisation that their answers depend on perspective. Populism and democratic decay are global phenomena but they play out differently in different countries and regions. They also cannot be properly understood through the lens of one discipline alone. This book brings together scholars of political science and law, who look at populism, democratic decay, and possible means to protect democratic constitutionalism from global, regional (European) and national angles. The book is made up of two parts. The first part discusses general aspects of populism. The second part of the book consists of seven country reports and one regional report; each analysing the success or failure of national constitutional safeguards against populism in the local constitutional and socio-political context. From East-Central Europe to the United Kingdom, from Italy to the Philippines, the pictures painted in these articles are diverse, yet enlightening and relevant from a comparative perspective. This volume is part of a research project on populism and democracy conducted at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, and funded by the Statesman Thorbecke Fund at the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (knaw).

Populism and Religion

Populism and Religion
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 139
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ISBN-10 : 0334031532
ISBN-13 : 9780334031536
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Populism and Religion by : Thierry-Marie Courau

Editorial 7 Part One: World Situations Populism and Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina 14 MILE BABIĆ Populism and Religious Nationalism in India 26 FRANCIS GONSALVES The Nationalisation of the Central Islamic Reference Point: Islam and Populism in the History of Turkey 37 DILEK SARMIS Part Two: Analyses Religious Populism: the New Avatar of Political Crisis 50 FRANÇOIS MABILLE Masculinist Populism and Toxic Christianity in the United States 61 SUSAN ABRAHAM Part Three: Challenging populism by theology The 'People' of God and its Idols in the 'One and Other' Testaments: How Sacred Scripture Challenges Populist Rhetoric 74 MARIDA NICOLACI 'Bridges not Barriers': The Potential of Christian Hope to Counter Right-Wing Populism 89 ANDREAS LOB-HÜDEPOHL Right-wing Populism and Catholicity: An Ecclesiological Reflection 101 FRANZ GMAINER-PRANZEL The Paradoxes of Populism and the Church's Contribution to Democracy: Some Hypotheses 111 CARMELO DOTOLO Part Four: Theological Forum Summer of Shame: American Catholics and the Latest Wave of the Abuse Crisis 124 CATHLEEN KAVENY Listening to the Conversation: After the Synod of Bishops Meeting on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment 130 BRUNO CADORÉ Contributors 136

The People

The People
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Publisher : Polity
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9780745628226
ISBN-13 : 0745628222
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The People by : Margaret Canovan

Political myths surround the figure of the people and help to explain its influence; should the people itself be regarded as fictional? This original and accessible study sheds a fresh light on debates about popular sovereignty, and will be an important resource for students and scholars of political theory.

Technopopulism

Technopopulism
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780198807766
ISBN-13 : 0198807767
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Technopopulism by : Christopher J. Bickerton

This is a book about a contemporary transformation in democratic politics: the rise of a new political field, techno-populism.

Creating the Desired Citizen

Creating the Desired Citizen
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781108832557
ISBN-13 : 1108832555
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Creating the Desired Citizen by : Ihsan Yilmaz

A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects in Turkey under both Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the concept of the desired, undesired and tolerated citizen. This shows how resulting historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, and fears have had influenced both state and society throughout these different periods.