The Oxford handbook of populism / edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Populism : an ideational approach -- Populism : a political-strategic approach -- Populism : a socio-cultural approach -- Populism in Africa -- Populism in Australia and New Zealand -- Populism in Central and Eastern Europe -- Populism in East Asia -- Populism in India -- Populism in Latin America -- Populism in the post-Soviet states -- Populism in the United States -- Populism in Western Europe -- Populism and its causes -- Populism and political parties -- Populism and social movements -- Populism and technocracy -- Populism and nationalism -- Populism and fascism -- Populism and foreign policy -- Populism and identification -- Populism and gender -- Populism and religion -- Populism and the media -- Populism and the question of how to respond to it -- Populism and the history of popular sovereignty -- Populism and hegemony -- Populism as a threat to liberal democracy -- Populism and the principle of majority -- Populism and constitutionalism -- Populism and the idea of the people -- Populism and praxis -- Populism and cosmopolitanism -- Populism in the socialist imagination.

Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism, but also the ongoing discussions and research gaps on this topic. The Oxford Handbook of Populism is divided into four sections. The first presents the main conceptual approaches on populism and points out how the phenomenon in question can be empirically analyzed. The second focuses on populist forces across the world and includes chapters on Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, India, Latin America, the Post-Soviet States, the United States, and Western Europe. The third reflects on the interaction between populism and various relevant issues both from a scholarly and political point of view. Amongst other issues, chapters analyze the relationship between populism and fascism, foreign policy, gender, nationalism, political parties, religion, social movements and technocracy. Finally, the fourth part includes some of the most recent normative debates on populism, including chapters on populism and cosmopolitanism, constitutionalism, hegemony, the history of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people, and socialism. The handbook features contributions from leading experts in the field, and is indispensable, positioning the study of populism in political science.