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Rabble-Rousers: A Brief Treatise On Populism And Its Ascent In The West, Andrew Baechtel
Rabble-Rousers: A Brief Treatise On Populism And Its Ascent In The West, Andrew Baechtel
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This project aims to examine the causes for the recent ascent of populism in the West during the last dozen or so years with a lens focused on the United States and France. The primary area under observation is both the historical and contemporary role that populism and its adherents have played within our cultures. I aim to address the following: What is populism, how has it been broadly understood and how do its adherents regard it and what causes populist movements to develop. Academics in the field have produced a rich historiography that reveals a divided discourse. Previously analysts …