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Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view sociology's crisis has deep roots traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines such as business administration criminal justice social work and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the new social science exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology will help to build a vigorous scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles social stratification and ethnic conflict showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge. | Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

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Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Presidential power is perhaps one of the most central issues in the study of the American presidency. Since Richard E. Neustadt's classic study first published in 1960 there has not been a book that thoroughly examines the issue of presidential power. Presidential Power: Theories and Dilemmas by noted scholar John P. Burke provides an updated and comprehensive look at the issues constraints and exercise of presidential power. This book considers the enduring question of how presidents can effectively exercise power within our system of shared powers by examining major tools and theories of presidential power including Neustadt's theory of persuasion and bargaining as power constitutional and inherent powers Samuel Kernell's theory of going public models of historical time and the notion of internal time. Using illustrative examples from historical and contemporary presidencies Burke helps students and scholars better understand how presidents can manage the public's expectations navigate presidential-congressional relations and exercise influence in order to achieve their policy goals. | Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

GBP 130.00
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Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it. Theories of democracy and property have often ignored the ways in which the rich attempt to convert their wealth into political power implicitly assuming that politics is isolated from economic forces. This book brings the moral and political links between wealth and power into clear focus. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part I analyses wealth and politics from the perspective of various political traditions such as liberalism republicanism anarchism and Marxism. Part II addresses the economic sphere and looks at the political influence of corporations philanthropists and commons-based organisations. Finally Part III turns to the political sphere and looks at the role of political parties and constitutions and phenomena such as corruption and lobbying. Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in political philosophy political science economics and law. | Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

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Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led many to believe that the nuclear era was coming to an end. More than ten years since Asia is leading the global nuclear sector. Contributing to two-thirds of the global construction of reactors and exhibiting its technical prowess in the nuclear research and development arena the future of nuclear power in Asia appears to be on a positive trajectory. This development is driven by a mix of urgent necessity aided by the realisation that benefits offered by nuclear power are not just environmental in character but also economic and strategic. In this context the book examines the energy trends and the current state of nuclear power in the Asian continent and endeavours to answer the much-deliberated question of whether Asia is witnessing a nuclear renaissance again. To address this question the book explores the policy responses by Asian countries to the Fukushima disaster. It attempts to map the future trajectory of nuclear power in Asia and tries to identify the factors that may accelerate or limit its growth. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) | Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

GBP 130.00
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China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

This volume explains China’s foreign policy from the perspective of its historical recovery after 1949 and the country’s subsequent rise as a great power including its transformation into a global power. It also illuminates how China has in tandem with its rise developed an increasing array of political economic ‘sharp power’ and military capabilities that is helping it to further its increasingly expansive foreign policy objectives. The volume examines two key questions: What have been the implications of China’s rise for its foreign policy? And how has an increasingly powerful and confident China used a range of foreign policy instruments to pursue its expanding national interests in Asia and beyond? The volume is divided into three parts covering the conceptualization and drivers of China’s foreign policy China’s relations with the world and the instruments of China’s foreign policy namely its economic power military capabilities and its ‘sharp power’ manipulation of information and relationships. It will be of interest to academics students and researchers interested in understanding China’s role in world politics. | China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

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Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. The sharp oil price rises of the 1970s attracted widespread attention to nuclear power as an alternative energy source while some developing countries began attaining the technological ability to develop nuclear weapons programmes. While the search for energy should not be thwarted the quest for nuclear weapons should not be promoted. The tension between these two goals has often led to confused export policies in the nuclear supplier nations. The author attacks this confusion at its source by examining first-hand the motives which drive nuclear policies in the developing world. He explores how security and economic objectives domestic policies and foreign influence shape nuclear policies enriching his analysis with examples from South American African and Asian experiences. This volume also takes into account those without active nuclear programmes to better understand how such programmes are born. This approach demonstrates that countries such as India Pakistan and Argentina entertain different priorities from countries such as Brazil Taiwan and the Philippines in promoting nuclear power.

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Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the application of air and space power in the past and present while exploring potential future challenges that global air forces may face. Bringing together leading and emerging academics professionals and military personnel from Australia within the field of air and space power this edited collection traces the evolution of technological innovations as well as the ethical and cultural frameworks which have informed the development of air and space power in the 20th and 21st centuries and contemplates the future. It covers topics such as the insurgents' use of drones the ethics of air strikes the privatisation of air power the historical trajectory of air power strategy and the sociological implications of an ‘air force’ identity. While many of the chapters use Australian-based case studies for their analysis they have broader applicability to a global readership and several chapters examine other nations’ experiences including those of the United States and the United Kingdom. This accessible illuminating book is an important addition to contemporary air and space power literature and will be of great interest to students and scholars of air and space power air warfare military and international history defence studies and contemporary strategic studies as well as military professionals. | Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

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Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

This book explores Russia’s relations with Latvia arguing that Latvia with a higher proportion of Russian speakers than other Baltic states is especially vulnerable to Russia’s “sharp power”. The book highlights how authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are unable to exercise soft power based on the attractiveness of the country's culture and values which would help them gain the favour of the audience of the target countries but instead as in the case of Russia use public diplomacy compatriot policy media policy propaganda and disinformation to produce a destructive effect distorting the democracies of target countries and increasing national security risks. The book provides in-depth detail on how Russia is making use of this “sharp power” in Latvia examines the consequences and assesses the dangers for the future. | Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

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Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and centrality of these urban configurations in Ancient Mesoamerican history. In Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica Rex Koontz Kathryn Reese-Taylor and Annabeth Headrick explore the cultural logic that structured and generated these centers. Through case studies of specific urban spaces and their meanings the authors examine the general principles by which the Ancient Mesoamericans created meaningful urban space. In a profoundly interdisciplinary exchange involving both archaeologists and art historians this volume connects the symbolism of those landscapes the performances that activated this symbolism and the cultural poetics of these ensembles.

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Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. NATO’s northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre where NATO directly borders Russia’s Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory which is the location of some of Russia’s most potent air sea and land power capabilities. While military tensions on the northern flank had been relatively low for years the Ukraine war and increased great-power rivalry have altered that dynamic with heightened geopolitical tensions. This has increased the focus on military-strategic competition in this northernmost region of the alliance. This book presents new assessments of several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. With an analysis of the security and political climate in the High North and of developments in Western military strategies capabilities doctrines and operational concepts the volume seeks to bring together an holistic understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North Atlantic states and NATO in this dynamic area of responsibility for the alliance. In doing this the book provides key insights into the role of branch-specific and joint approaches to power projection and operations in the High North which also include selected country case studies. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO military studies security studies and International Relations. | Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

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China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

This book uses football as a lens through which to examine China’s economic development its political economy and its political thought. Focusing on the Chinese Football Development Plan this book opens up new perspectives on the concepts of hegemony soft power socialism with Chinese characteristics and China’s rise to the position of geopolitical superpower. Presenting a critical Marxist analysis of “soft power” and drawing on Gramsci’s conceptualisation of hegemony this book argues that football can be seen as a resource for seduction and persuasion and therefore as an instrument to be used in the “hegemonic clash”. Reflecting on the idea of soft power in relation to imperialism and ideology and standing in contrast to prevailing Western orthodox analyses of Chinese development this book shows how the “Chinese Football Dream” is a significant component of the “Chinese Dream” of “rejuvenation of the nation” and shows how football can help us to better understand the role of the state as an inducer of development and creative destruction. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport policy public policy sport and society football development studies political economy or political thought. | China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

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Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

This book examines the management of ‘state fragility’ and the practices and impacts of quantification over relations of power in international politics. With the further movement towards quantification and as technical and technological changes advance this book argues that certain important quantifying practices can be understood in terms of symbolic power which is more nuanced and subtle. The aim is that such an understanding can also open space for considering other instances of power that are blurred and nuanced in current international politics. By looking at how the merging of conflict and development issues in the fragile states agenda has been fed by and has fed the authority of ever-perfectible numbers the book offers an approach to address the difficulty in dealing with profound inequality without presuming domination. Instead the example of the g7+ group of self-labelled ‘fragile states’ and its tools indicate that quantification has reached a point of no return but it has done so through indirect practices of management and with the complicity so to say of those deemed least favoured by it. This shows that there is little chance that policy-makers and academics can escape dealing with numbers and there is much to be gained by understanding how complex and knowingly imperfect statistics become authoritative and widespread. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies International Political Sociology development studies and IR in general. | Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

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The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social political cultural architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world. Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa Asia the Americas Europe and Oceania. This focus allows a cross-cultural evaluation of New Urban Tourism and its dynamic and changing conception transforming and subverting cities and tourism alike. The Power of New Urban Tourism will be of great interest to academics researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies sociology the political sciences economics history human geography urban design and planning architecture ethnology and anthropology. | The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

GBP 130.00
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Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study it examines ‘development’ in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions. Affect and emotions are complicit in the structural conditions that sustain material and social inequalities and deprivations and critical to the potential for disruption and transformation. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how affect and emotions enrich understandings of or rethink power configurations in development while being attentive to forces of destabilization and creativity. They unravel the subtleties of power in development from micro to macro scales enhance the understanding of development as an inherently political process and highlight the possibilities for resistance and transformation. The book introduces new lines of enquiry to understand power in development theory and practice grounded in rich empirical research from across Asia and Australia and will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of anthropology third world studies development studies and development theory. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. | Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

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America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States he explained was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U. S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War the U. S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U. S. security supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century. | America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

GBP 140.00
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Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia

Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia

Confronting the challenges of nuclear power governance this book provides pathways to nuclear safety cooperation between countries in East Asia where regional cooperation is challenged by geopolitical tensions. The book is split into three parts: first looking at nuclear risk and safety communications second on nuclear policy and harmonization of safety standards and third a comparative analysis of nuclear regulatory agencies in East Asia. Taken as a whole the contributors recommend the establishment of a nuclear safety system that which allows for mutual verification of safety standards at the regional level and a regulatory framework with international credibility which will help standardize risk communication. They suggest that the exchange of experiences involving nuclear power plant safety efforts toward common safety standards safety management and collaborative efforts between Japan China and South Korea are extremely urgent issues. By comparing the European system of nuclear governance with that of East Asia the book highlights the need for nuclear safety organizations in East Asia to strengthen interconnections and build regional linkages. This book will be of interest to policymakers academics and researchers in the field of energy policy energy economics nuclear safety nuclear governance and nuclear engineering. | Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia

GBP 130.00
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The Power of Silence Silent Communication in Daily Life

The Power of Silence Silent Communication in Daily Life

This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent powerful beautiful and even dangerous. It surrounds and permeates our daily lives. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural literary and historical sources the author explores the uses and abuses of silence. He explains how silence is not associated with solitude alone but has a much broader value within society. The main themes of The Power of Silence are positive and negative uses of silence and the various ways in which silence has been understood culturally socially and spiritually. The book's objectives are to equip people with a better appreciation of the value of silence and to enable them to explore its benefits and uses more easily for themselves. | The Power of Silence Silent Communication in Daily Life

GBP 130.00
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Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

This book engages with current debates on ‘planetary urbanization’ and the nature of urban political theory but notably considers the implications of illiberalism on space territory and power. Such a focus is timely as illiberalism (across various settings and terrains) is producing and embedded in increasingly complex hybrid multi-scalar non-linear and globally networked flows. Through ordinary explorations drawn from diverse empirical case studies (China the United States India South Korea and Singapore) and via mixed methodologies the chapters in this volume seek to advance theory that moves beyond assumptions and certainties of what illiberalism is how and where it operates what it looks like and how it is experienced and embodied in different contexts offline and online. Chapters critically reflect upon themes like authoritarianism and the spatialization of illiberal power from the grassroots up to national governments and stress the need to move beyond normative understandings and portrayals of these terms and concepts. Presciently this volume looks back on recent history pre-dating the Covid-19 pandemic and some of the shocking political transformations now underway: as such the chapters offer a valuable lens to critically consider issues like public health policies surveillance and policing borders and bordering and activism and resistance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Territory Politics Governance. | Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

GBP 120.00
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Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

How can we change things in an age in which governments are fixated on the bottom line and conventional protest rallies have lost their punch?Coalitions can be important tools for social change and union revitalisation. What makes them successful? What causes them to fail? Community organiser Amanda Tattersall examines successful coalitions between unions and community organisations in three countries: the public education coalition in Sydney Toronto's Ontario Health Coalition fighting to save universal health care and Chicago's living wage campaign run by the Grassroots Collaborative. She explores when and how coalitions can be a powerful strategy for social change organisational development and union renewal. Power in Coalition is essential reading for unionists community activists and anyone passionate about social change. 'A fascinating insight into the potential for coalitions to restore the balance of power between governments and the communities they are supposed to serve. ' - Julian Burnside AO QC'Amanda Tattersall shows that coalitions though hard work at times are the best means we have to rebalance power beat poverty and injustice and build a future that includes all of us especially the weakest. ' - Tim Costello AO CEO World Vision Australia'If unions are to maximise their influence in the 21st century they must build alliances with other organisations around economic social and ecological concerns affecting humanity. This book shows it is possible to build the necessary coalitions to achieve this end. ' - Jack Mundey AO instigator of the 1970s Green Bans movement in Sydney | Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

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Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

With reference to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel’s claim of “the end of art” to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms – power capital habitus field and so forth-into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature cultural studies and those with specific interests in Chinese literature literary and art theory. | Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

GBP 120.00
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Power and Representation in Byzantium The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

Power and Representation in Byzantium The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

Throughout the history of Byzantium 65 emperors were dethroned and only 39 reigns ended peacefully. How might a usurper get away with murdering his predecessor? And how could a bloody act of regicide lead to one of the most glorious of all eras in Byzantium? These were questions that puzzled Michael Psellos as he looked back at Basil I’s assassination of Michael III and the origin of the Macedonian dynasty. Might the imperial art of Basil his sons and grandson help to explain how the dynasty overcame its violent beginnings and secured the loyalty of its subjects? It has long been recognised that the early Macedonian emperors were active propagandists but royal art has usually been viewed thematically over the span of centuries. Official iconography has been understood to project imperial power in ways which were impersonal and unchanging. This book instead adopts a chronological approach and considers how Basil justified his seizure of power and how his successors went on to articulate their own ideas about authority. It concludes that imperial art did at times reflect the personality of the emperor and the political demands of the moment such as the need for an heir the nature of court politics or the choice of successor. This innovative account of the forging of the Macedonian dynasty will appeal to those interested in how early medieval kings and emperors used art to create their own image to differentiate themselves from rivals and to extend the boundaries of their personal power. | Power and Representation in Byzantium The Forging of the Macedonian Dynasty

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Populism in Power Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump

Populism in Power Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump

Shifting attention away from policy achievements and effects on democracy this book focuses on the charismatic function of populist discourse – comprising antagonistic narratives transgressive style and appeals to the common people. The book puts forward an integrative approach that brings together discourse analysis analysis of digital media in-depth interviews and ethnographic methods and places into comparative perspective the cases of SYRIZA in Greece and Donald Trump in the United States. Theorising populism through the lens of collective identification Venizelos places the rhetorical and emotional dynamics of populist performativity at the core of the analysis offering a rigorous yet flexible conceptulisation of populism in power. Against theoretical expectations findings suggest that both SYRIZA and Trump retained to different degrees their populist character in power although their style and vision differed vastly. This book urges researchers journalists and politicians to adopt a reflexive approach to analysing the political implications of populism for politics polity and society and to challenge the normatively charged definitions that are uncritically reproduced in the public sphere. It will appeal to researchers of political theory populism comparative politics sociologists and ethnographers. | Populism in Power Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump

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