"This book is about the decline of freedom in America," Lawrence Goodwyn writes, and he then proceeds to overturn three generations of historical literature on Populism and to cast a radically new light on what he calls the undemocratic "progressive society" of twentieth-century…
Mapping populism: approaches and methods
"This collection, which can serve as an introduction to the field of populism, provides an array of interdisciplinary approaches to populist mobilizations, theories, meanings, and effects. In so doing, it rejects essentialized ideas regarding what populism is or is not. Rather, …
Populist Discourse brings together experts from both linguistics and political science to analyse the language of populist leaders and the media's representation of populism in different temporal, geographical and ideological contexts, including Nazi Germany, Sweden, the Netherl…
Halbwahrheiten gehören zu den auffälligsten und wirkmächtigsten Instrumenten des sogenannten postfaktischen politischen Diskurses - eines Diskurses, der zwischen Relativismus und Zynismus schwankt und für den die Verwandlung von Fakten in bloße Meinungen ebenso typisch ist wie d…
Under the tenure of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the political system in Hungary has moved significantly in an autocratic direction, yet there is a lack of research explaining the historical context, political landscape and drive behind this shift. This book offers a deep histor…