Module POLM155 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM155: The Politics of Populism: Domestic and global challenges
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
The aims of this module are to provide you with a detailed examination of the relation of mutual influence between mainstream and populist political parties. It will examine in detail the role that mainstream political parties have played in the rise of populist parties and discourses and, in turn, the impact of populist parties and discourses on mainstream domestic and foreign policy decision-making. Key case studies will include the impact of far right parties on immigration policy in the EU, the deconstruction of democratic institutions by populists in power in Central Eastern Europe, the foreign policy of Donald Trump, the causes of Brexit, or alliances between mainstream and populist parties in continental Europe. If you take this module and fully participate you will leave with a grasp of key debates in populism studies, and knowledge of historical and contemporary trends in the relationship between populism and contemporary politics.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate substantive knowledge of the role of mainstream parties in the success of populist appeals, and the impact of populist parties on mainstream politics. 2. Gain expertise on populist politics in a specific country, and systematically put this knowledge in comparative perspective. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Demonstrate a critical and comprehensive understanding of contemporary debates in the field of populism studies. 4. Critically apply the comparative method to the analysis of populist developments in contemporary democracies. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. Conduct independent research and exercise critical reasoning in weighing academic arguments. 6. Demonstrate substantive analytical capacity and structure in written and oral expression. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Akkerman, Tjitske, Sarah L. de Lange, and Matthijs Rooduijn, eds (2016) Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe, Into the Mainstream? Abingdon, New York: Routledge.
Canovan, Margaret. 2005. The people, Key concepts (Polity Press). Cambridge: Polity.
Hay, Colin (2007), Why We Hate Politics, Cambridge: Polity.
Horwitz, Robert Britt (2013) America's right: anti-establishment conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party: Cambridge : Polity.
Linz, Juan J. 2000. Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Boulder, CO: Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Mudde, Cas (2007) Populist radical right parties in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Norris, Pippa (2005) Radical right: voters and parties in the electoral market. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Panizza, Francisco (ed.) (2005), Populism and the Mirror of Democracy, London: Verso.
Pirro, Andrea L. P (2015) The populist radical right in Central and Eastern Europe: ideology, impact, and electoral performance: London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Rosenthal, L., & Trost, C. (Eds.) (2012) Steep: the precipitous rise of the Tea Party. Berkeley, London: University of California Press.
Schäfer, Armin, and Wolfgang Streeck, eds. 2013. Politics in the age of austerity. Edited by Polity. Cambridge.
Skocpol, T., & Williamson, V. (2012). The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press
