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From Fascism to Populism in History
Author(s) -
Leiva Diego
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/ajph.12560
Subject(s) - populism , government (linguistics) , politics , citation , political science , media studies , history , law , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
From Fascism to Populism in History. By Federico Finchelstein (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017), pp.352, AU$59.99 (cloth), available in Australia through Footprint Books. From Fascism to Populism in History arrives in the midst of an apparent “new wave” of right‐wing populism across Europe and the United States. “New” at least through the eyes of many pundits and journalists, which have treated recent electoral victories by populist parties in places like Italy as shocking or inexplicable, despite populism having flourished in that country for several decades. Finchelstein contributes with his book to the clarification of the phenomenon from a historical perspective, stressing the need to look back in order to realise that it should not be shocking and that it can be explained, considering populism has never really gone away since 1945. It is a great contribution to the study of populism, in a field which has been traditionally dominated by political scientists’ analyses.