Anti-Neoliberal Populisms in Comparative Perspective

In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the emergence and the internal organization of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America and Southern Europe, and the relationships between these parties and the organised working class.

Enrico Padoan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social and Political Studies of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy. He had his PhD in Comparative Politics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile. His research interests focus on populism, labor politics and social movements.

1. Introduction 2. The Argument 3. Bolivia: Movement-Based Populism in Power 4. Argentina's Kirchnerism: A Party-Rooted Populist Project Incorporating New Social Actors 5. Podemos. The Left-Wing Movement Populism that Renewed the Spanish Left 6. The Italian Five Star MoVement: A Leader-Initiated Populism against all the Existing Structures of Socio-Political Intermediation 7. Venezuela, Uruguay, Portugal and Greece 8. Conclusions