Syllabus
1. Lecture 1: Course introduction
2. Lecture 2: Main theoretical approaches and conceptual frameworks
3. Lecture 3: Latin American populism
4. Lecture 4: Classical theories of populism: Gino Germani, Torcuato di Tella
5. Lecture 5: Varieties of populism: Theory of Margaret Canovan
6. Lecture 6: The concept of ideology (Freeden)
7. Lecture 7: Populism as ideology I (Cas Mudde)
8. Lecture 8: Populism as ideology II (Paul Taggart)
9. Lecture 9: Populism as Strategy (Kurt Weyland)
10. Lecture 10: Populism as Discourse (Ernesto Laclau)
11. Lecture 11: Populism and technocracy
12. Lecture 12: Test
Annotation
Moodle page for the course: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=8142
This course provides an introduction to the main sociological theories of populism. The populist political phenomenon is analyzed from the point of view of the social dynamics of democracy and not only, as is the case with political science, from the point of view of institutional structures. The objective of this course, which is divided into lectures and seminars, is to provide the student with a sociological perspective on the transformations of democracy due to the pressure of populism. It will be analyzed main general theories (Germani, Laclau, Canovan), the contemporary theories of populism (Weyland, Mudde etc.) and also the most paradigmatic cases of populism, such as Latin American, Italian, European, will be discussed.