Populism's power
Subtitle: radical grassroots democracy in America
By: Laura Grattan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780190277628; 9780190277635
Subjects: History; Social movements; Political participation; Democracy; Populism
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Aspirational Democratic Populism: Enacting Popular Power at the Horizons of Democracy; title: 2. "Fanning the Spark of Hope": Populism's Rebellious Nineteenth-Century Commonwealth; title: 3. America's Populist Imaginary: Brought to You by Chevrolet and Leonard Cohen; title: 4. Populist Resonances in the Twenty-first Century: The Tea Party and Occupy; title: Conclusion: Queering the Borders of Populism; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.