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Fifth Cleavage: Genealogy of the Populist Ideology and Parties

Fifth Cleavage: Genealogy of the Populist Ideology and Parties

Barbieri, Giovanni

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1793603448
ISBN13: 9781793603449
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Mar 12 2021
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Fifth Cleavage: Genealogy of the Populist Ideology proposes an in-depth analysis of populism, as one of the central phenomena in the contemporary public and political debate. In particular, this study aims to investigate the causes of the emergence of populism and its possible effects on the political system and on the democratic institutions. The central thesis of the book is that populism is originated by a cleavage between two opposite groups - the people and the elite - which appeared for the first time soon after the democratic revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries. This cleavage is not constantly active; but it tends to reactivate itself only under certain circumstances, when certain critical junctures occur, thus giving rise to different waves of populism. When the populist cleavage is active, the other lines of division and conflict (of class, of religion, etc.) lose their relevance. What are the features of this cleavage? What kind of relationship does it have with the well-known traditional cleavages (capital-labor, state-church, urban-rural, center-periphery)? What are the characteristics of the recent wave of populism? And what are its effects on the functioning of democracy? These are the main questions to which this book is devoted.

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