Populism, Democracy, the Left
The Methodological Challenge
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This book resolves a persistent analytical gridlock in the study of populism by providing a rigorous conceptual reconstruction. It moves from this theoretical groundwork to a qualitative study of the Greek Radical Left (SYRIZA), drawing on its experience over the last two decades to challenge and recast the cartel-party model.
Seraphim Seferiades is Professor of Politics at the Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens; Director of the Laboratory on Contentious Politics; and Life Member in Politics and History at the University of Cambridge (CLH). He is the author of For a Politics That Shapes: Labour Movement and the State (2023), The Red Thread of a Decade: Analyses and Texts from the Crisis Years (2017), and Along the Pathways of Historiography: A Critical Survey through the Prism of Social Science (2014).
This book resolves a persistent analytical gridlock in the study of populism by providing a rigorous conceptual reconstruction. It moves from this theoretical groundwork to a qualitative study of the Greek Radical Left (SYRIZA), drawing on its experience over the last two decades to challenge and recast the cartel-party model.
Provides a thorough and theoretically informed criticism of populism as an analytic category Critiques the model of the cartel party and its implications for democracy Calls for re-emphasizing political agency in our attempts to better understand recent developments in parties
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Seraphim Seferiades
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