Populism as Govemental Practice (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

by: Toygar Sinan Baykan (Author)

Publisher:

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2024/6/28

Language: English

Print Length: 296 pages

ISBN-10: 1032279109

ISBN-13: 9781032279107

Book Description

Populism as Govemental Practice illustrates how populism functions as a phenomenon of power and draws attention to the brighter and darker consequences of populist rule for ordinary people across the world via bottom-up analyses of populist experiences of govement in remarkably different national contexts including Turkey, Venezuela, Greece, India, Philippines, Egypt, and the United States.By proposing an understanding of politics that is broader than the one embraced in current populism research, it focuses on a realm stretching beyond the electoral high politics of ideas/ideologies, discourses, public performances/styles, and mobilization efforts. The book theorizes populism as a responsive political/govemental practice in congruence with the material and symbolic expectations of populist audiences and analyses it as a rich praxis of goveing people and things that is blurring the boundaries between public and the private as well as formal and the informal while embracing swiftness in temporal terms.Through an interpretive perspective focusing on the bounded rationalities and moral economies embedded in the populist rule and popular obeyance to it, this book would appeal to researchers and students of politics and its sub-disciplines as well as to the non-expert audience curious about the micro dynamics of populist rule.

About the Author

Populism as Govemental Practice illustrates how populism functions as a phenomenon of power and draws attention to the brighter and darker consequences of populist rule for ordinary people across the world via bottom-up analyses of populist experiences of govement in remarkably different national contexts including Turkey, Venezuela, Greece, India, Philippines, Egypt, and the United States.By proposing an understanding of politics that is broader than the one embraced in current populism research, it focuses on a realm stretching beyond the electoral high politics of ideas/ideologies, discourses, public performances/styles, and mobilization efforts. The book theorizes populism as a responsive political/govemental practice in congruence with the material and symbolic expectations of populist audiences and analyses it as a rich praxis of goveing people and things that is blurring the boundaries between public and the private as well as formal and the informal while embracing swiftness in temporal terms.Through an interpretive perspective focusing on the bounded rationalities and moral economies embedded in the populist rule and popular obeyance to it, this book would appeal to researchers and students of politics and its sub-disciplines as well as to the non-expert audience curious about the micro dynamics of populist rule.