Populism

Latin American Perspectives

Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Mariana Mastrángelo and Pablo Pozzi

“This excellent volume very welcomely restores Latin America to its rightful place at the centre of the analysis of populism.” – Benjamin Moffitt, Australian Catholic University

“An anthology of great interest for both students and academics.” – Ronald H. Chilcote, University of California, Riverside

“A timely reminder of the centrality of Latin America to theorizing populism. An outstanding collection of essays that provides an insightful and challenging analysis of populism.” – Mo Hume, University of Glasgow

Much of the debate around populism has been from the perspective of the global North and the voice of the South has been largely missing. This volume addresses this absence and provides a Latin American perspective to the global study of populism. It argues that Latin America in its rich and early experience of populism is a valuable laboratory to further our understanding and to address the question of whether populism now goes beyond the dichotomy of left and right and is a new political phenomenon.

Pablo Pozzi is a Plenary Full Professor in the History Department of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The book presents a series of case studies with crosscutting overview chapters that highlight the lessons to be learned from new research. Each chapter is set within a tight conceptual framework in order to better understand contemporary Latin American politics “after the pink tide” and to enrich the international debate on populism from a Latin American perspective.