Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors The Constitutive Ambiguity of Populism: M.Mény & Y.Surel PART I: MAKING SENSE OF POPULISM Taking Politics to the People: Populism as the Ideology of Democracy; M.Canovan Populism, the Democratic Question, and Contemporary Governance; Y.Papadopoulos Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics; P.Taggart Populist Democracy vs. Party Democracy; P.Mair PART II: IDENTIFYING COUNTRY VARIATIONS The United States: Populism as Political Strategy; A.Ware Populism Italian Style; M.Tarchi Populism in the French Party System; Y.Surel Evil or the 'Engine of Democracy'? Populism and Party Competition in Austria; W.C.Müller PART III: COMPARING NATIONAL CASES Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy: Populism and Party Systems; H.Kitschelt Conditions Favouring the Success (and Failure) of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies; H.G.Betz In the Name of Peasantry, the Proletariat, and the People: Populisms in East Europe; C.Mudde References Index

Promotional Information

Yves Meny is is co-author of "The Future of European Welfare: A New Social Contract" and "Government and Politics in Western Europe".

About the Author

YVES M?NY is Professor of Political Science and President of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He is co-author (with M.Rhodes) of The Future of European Welfare: A New Social Contract and (with A. Knapp) Government and Politics in Western Europe. - YVES SUREL is Research Associate at the Centre d'?tude de la vie politique francaise, Sciences Po, Paris.