Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction
4. Liberal responses to populism 1
5. Part I: Populism – Its Nature and Causes
6. Disappointing democracy? Individual liberty, popular rule, and the yearning for sovereignty 13
7. Populists in the spiral of radicalization 31
8. Populism, technocracy, and liberalism in zoological perspective 47
9. Part II: Populism – Inside the Political Arena
10. The metamorphosis of liberalism: from an elite project to an ideology critique of democratic policy 69
11. Is populism a threat to liberal democracy? Democratic resilience, the radical right, and the neo-authoritarian agenda 87
12. How (not) to compromise: classical liberalism and the challenge of democratic party politics 103
13. Part III: Populism – Seeking for Liberal Responses
14. Market democracy, rising populism, and contemporary ordoliberalism 119
15. Civic virtues: a liberal answer to populism 137
16. Democracy on a blockchain: the cure for populism? 153
17. Migration policies and populism: a decentralized approach 169
18. Part IV: Populism – Contending with Influential Authors
19. Michael Sandel on meritocracy and the populist threat to liberalism: a critical assessment 189
20. The political philosophy of populism in the writings of Isaiah Berlin and Ernesto Laclau: a comparative approach 201
21. Against populism before the fact: the early modern republicanism of James Harrington and John Adams 215
22. Appendix
23. Bibliography 229
24. Contributors 255