Populism's power : radical grassroots democracy in America

Summary: "In Populism's Power, Laura Grattan looks at how populism cultivates the aspirations of ordinary people to exercise power over their everyday lives and their collective fate. She considers a range of populist moments and reopens the idea that grassroots movements can play a key role in democratizing power and politics in America"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780190277635
ISBN: 9780190277628
ISBN: 0190277629
ISBN: 9780190277635
ISBN: 0190277637
Physical Description: print
xi, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-274) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Populism and Paradox of Democracy -- Aspirational Democratic Populism: Enacting Popular Power at the Horizons of Democracy -- 'Fanning the Spark of Hope': Populism's Rebellious Nineteenth-Century Commonwealth -- America's Populist Imaginary: Brought to You by Chevrolet and Leonard Cohen -- Populist Resonances in the Twenty-First Century: The Tea Party and Occupy -- Conclusion: Queering the Borders of Populism.