Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy.
Her books include The Return of the Political
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau)
The Dimensions of Radical Democracy
Gramsci and Marxist Theory
Deconstruction and Pragmatism
The Democratic Paradox ; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt , all from Verso..
Chantal Mouffe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.
He is the author of, amongst other works, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Chantal Mouffe), New Reflections of the Revolution of Our Time , The Populist Reason , Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek), and Emancipation(s) .
Ernesto Laclau is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government, University of Essex, and Distinguished Professor for Humanities and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University.
He has written extensively on Populism and Democracy in contemporary Latin America and is currently working on a book on politics and modernity in the region.
About the Author: Francisco Panizza is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
This definitive collection, edited by one of the worlds pre-eminent authorities on populism, Francisco Panizza, combines theoretical essays with a number of specially commissioned case studies on populist politics.
It is, rather, a Mirror in which Democracy may contemplate itself, warts and all, in a discovery of itself and what it lacks.
It is neither the highest form of Democracy nor its enemy.
It often represents the ugly face of the people.
Populism raises awkward questions about modern forms of democracy
