Populism and Civil Society by Andrew Arato -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Defining Populism

What Is Populism? How to Define the Phenomenon What Is Populism: Immanent Critique What Is Populism: Construction of the Ideal Type Different Populisms: Mobilization, Party, Government, and Regime The Plan of the Book

1. Populism: Why and Why Now?

The Turn to Mobilization Populism and the Media

2. Populism as Mobilization and as a Party

Social Movements: Their Logic and Limits Political Parties and Their Transformation Populist Mobilization, Its Dynamics and Tensions: The Cases

Mobilization by or with Parties Mobilization by a Government or a Chief Executive Mobilization from below in Civil Society

Movement Parties and the Movementization of Parties Populist Logic: Implications for Populist Parties and Democratic Party Systems

Conclusion

3. Populist Governments and Their Logic

Democracy Revisited Populism in Government: Democracy Enhancing or Eviscerating? Populist Government I: Qualified Authoritarianism?

The Threshold Issue Populist Government II: Illiberal Democracy?

The Concept of Illiberal Democracy The Populist Hybrid Regime

4. Populism and Constitutionalism

Introduction Contesting the Balance between Popular Sovereignty and Constitutionalism

Is There a Populist Constitutionalism?

Inherited Constitutionalism A New Balance? Constitutional Instrumentalism? Abusive Constitutionalism Political Constitutionalism as Norm?

Constitutionalism of the Constituent Power

5. Alternatives to Populism

The Popular vs. the Populist Popular Sovereignty From “Thin Ideology” to the Norms of Democracy Toward a New Political Narrative The Constituent Power, Democratic Constitutionalism, and Consensus Democracy

Rescuing (Some of) the Host Ideologies

Notes Bibliography Index