Contemporary Populism: A Controversial Concept and Its Diverse Forms
About this ebook
Without aiming to solve old dilemmas, to cover all the existing forms of populism, or to outline unequivocal conclusions, the contributions to this book fulfil a twofold task. On the one hand, they help to clarify theoretically a concept that is difficult to grasp and use. On the other hand, by way of reflecting these difficulties, they present several forms of populism worldwide. Their main purpose is to highlight the differences between the continents. Each of the chapters in the second section successfully accomplishes this, providing an overview that is useful both in analysing populism and in identifying the populist elements in national and international political actions or discourses.
About the author
Sergiu Mişcoiu is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) where he chairs the Department of International Relations and American Studies. He holds one PhD in Political Science (University of Paris-East Marne-la-Vallée), another PhD in History (Babes-Bolyai University), and a habilitation in Political Science (University of Paris-East).
Sorina Soare is a Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the University of Florence She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and has previously studied Political Science at the University of Bucharest. She was a Wiener Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at St Antony’s College.
