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020 _a9781108785440 (ebook)
020 _z9781108479424 (hardback)
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050 4 _aJK275
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100 1 _aRicci, David M.,
_eauthor.
_9754255
245 1 2 _aA political science manifesto for the age of populism :
_bchallenging growth, markets, inequality and resentment /
_cDavid M. Ricci.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 245 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020).
520 _aPopulism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalization, and the rise of temporary jobs - all breeding resentment. Rather than dwelling on symptoms, Ricci focuses on the root of our nation's problems. Thus, creative destruction, aiming at perpetual economic growth, encouraged by neoliberalism, creates the economic inequality that fuels resentment and leads to increased populism. Ricci urges political scientists to highlight this destruction meaningfully and substantively, to use empirical realism to put human beings back into politics. Ricci's sensible argument conveys a sense of political urgency, grappling with real-world problems and working to transform abstract speculations into tangible, useful tools. The result is a passionate book, important not only to political scientists, but to an
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y21st century.
_938540
650 0 _aPopulism
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
_9304462
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108479424
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108785440
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