Cover Image

Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States : American Unexceptionalism and Political Identity Formation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Savage, Ritchie (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2018.
Subjects:
Populism > Venezuela.
Populism > United States.
Venezuela > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Venezuela.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; What Is Populism?; Case Selection; Research Methodology; Between Movements and the State, the Rational and the Irrational; Bibliography; Chapter 2: The Negative Proof of the Discursive Model: Populism as a Conceptual and Empirical Problem; Introduction; Dislocation and Terrain; Epistemological Contours; Populism and Latin America; Populism in the United States; Populism in Western Europe and Other Comparisons; Laclau; Discourse Theory, the Unconscious, and Social Movements; Conclusion; Bibliography
  • Chapter 3: From Betancourt to Chávez: Interpreting Venezuelan Populism in Two Revolutionary GovernmentsIntroduction; Populist Discourse During the Trienio Period of AD Rule; The Populist Discourse of Chávez and the Chavista Movement; Antonymy, Fantasy, and Collective Memory; Further Comparisons Between Trienio AD and Chávez in Historical Context; Conclusion: The Royal Road of Populism; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Anti-Leftist Populism in McCarthyism and the Tea Party; Introduction; McCarthyism in the Populism Literature; The Tea Party in the Media
  • Overcoming the Conceptual Dilemma of PopulismDiscursive Applications; Internal and External Threats; The Big Différance; Populism as the Political; New Institutionalized Populism in Comparative Perspective; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Comparing Populism in Venezuela and the United States; Introduction; Betancourt and AD; McCarthyism; Chávez and the Chavistas; The Tea Party; Institutionalization; The Wedding of Clear Discourse and Clear Policy; Bibliography
  • Chapter 6: Everything in History Happens: Further Problems with Populism as a Comparative-ÂƯHistorical PhenomenonBibliography; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Beyond Laclau: My Theoretical Intervention; How the Discursive Model Moves Beyond the Impasse of Social Movement Theory; Bibliography; Bibliography; Index