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Populism, Punishment and the Threat to Democratic Order - The Return of the Strong Men (Hardcover)
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Populism, Punishment and the Threat to Democratic Order - The Return of the Strong Men (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
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This book traces the rise of contemporary populism in Western
democracies, marked by the return of would-be 'strong men'
politicians. It seeks to make sense of the resultant nature,
origins, and consequences -as expressed, for example, in the
startling rise of the social movement surrounding Trump in the US,
Brexit in the UK and the remarkable spread of ideologies that
express resistance to "facts," science, and expertise. Uniquely,
the book shows how what began as a form of penal populism in the
early 1990s transformed into a more wide ranging populist politics
with the potential to undermine or even overthrow the democratic
order altogether; examines the way in which the Covid-19 pandemic
has impacted on these forces, arguing it threw the flailing
democratic order an important lifeline, as Vladimir Putin has
subsequently done with his war in Ukraine. The book argues that
contemporary political populism can be seen as a wider
manifestation of the earlier tropes and appeal of penal populism
arising under neo-liberalism. The author traces this cross over and
the roots of discontent, anxiety, anti-elites sentiment and the
sense of being forgotten, that lie at the heart of populism, along
with its effects in terms of climate denial, 'fake news', othering,
nativism and the denigration of scientific and other forms of
expertise. In a highly topical and important extension to the field
the author suggests that the current covid pandemic might prove to
be an 'antidote' to populism, providing the conditions in which
scientific and medical expertise, truth telling, government
intervention in the economy and in health policy, and social
solidarity, are revalorised. Encompassing numerous subject areas
and crossing many conventional disciplinary boundaries, this book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology
and criminal justice, sociology, political science, law, and public
policy.
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