Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States - American Unexceptionalism and Political Identity Formation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.S. and Latin American speeches and articles covering Betancourt's Accion Democratica, Chavez, McCarthyism, and the Tea Party. In so doing, he reveals an essential structure to populist discourse: reference to the "opposition" as a representation of the persistence of social conflict, posed against a collective memory of the origins of democracy and struggle for equality, is present in all cases. This discursive formation of populism is carried out in comparisons of political discourse in the United States and Venezuela, two countries that are typically classified as empirically specific in their economic and political development and ideological orientation. Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States explores how instances of populism, once exceptional phenomena within modern forms of political rule, are becoming increasingly integrated with the structure of democratic politics.

General

Imprint:	Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Ritchie Savage
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	152
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-72663-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Discourse analysis
LSN:	3-319-72663-3
Barcode:	9783319726632

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