This volume brings together a range of scholars dissatisfied with the mainstream of the populism debate.

• Cover
• The Populist Manifesto
• The Populist Manifesto
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Populism
  • The emerging consensus around ‘what is populism?’
  • Populism, crisis and transition
  • Left-wing and right-wing
  • Populism’s others: Non- and anti-
  • Bibliographical notes
• Chapter 2
• Populism and Myth
  • The political effectiveness of storytelling
  • The function of myths in political discourse
  • The dual hero: Leader and people
  • Punching upward/punching downward
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliographical notes
  • Notes
• Chapter 3
• Populism and the Politics of Control
  • Control and sovereignty
  • Globalisation and loss of control
  • Control and psychology
  • Uses of control
  • Bibliographical notes
• Chapter 4
• Ten Theses on Populism – and Democracy
  • 1. Populism is PERFORMATIVE AND not easily defined
  • 2. POPULISM, JUST LIKE NATIONALISM, HAS a Janus-face
  • 3. Populism relates to DEMOCRACY, not demography
  • 4. Populism’s tendentially empty core relates to the ethos of democracy
  • 5. Populism can be reduced into a formula
  • 6. Populism occurs in moments
  • 7. Populism is not the goal but the means of politics
  • 8. Populist dynamics reveal variation
  • 9. Competing populisms sustain themselves as a basis of polarisation
  • 10. Populism is spatial: Space and people co-constitute one another
  • Bibliographical notes
• Chapter 5
• Why Populists Aren’t Mad
  • Emotions as threats to democracy
  • Is populism a democratic anomaly?
  • Salvaging emotions (and maybe democracy?)
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliographical notes
• Chapter 6
• Populism, Democracy and the Transnational People
  • Democracy and populism
  • Transnationalism, democracy and populism
  • Bibliographical notes
• Chapter 7
• Left Populism as a Political Project
  • Theoretical misconceptions around populism
  • Left- versus right-wing populism
  • Biographical notes
  • Notes
• Chapter 8
• A Manifesto and Populism?
  • Left and right (populism)
  • Pluralism and the people
  • Antagonism
  • Supply and DEMAND
  • Bibliographical notes
• Index