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Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States

American Unexceptionalism and Political Identity Formation

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Ritchie Savage

    1. Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA

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  • Investigates how populist discourse is structured in order to appeal to the people and foster multiclass coalitions
  • Reveals an essential, universal form to populist discourse, as evidence by its presence in two politically, economically, and ideologically unique nations
  • Bridges linguistics and discourse analysis, political communication, and political and historical sociology to address key questions in political discourse

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Negative Proof of the Discursive Model: Populism as a Conceptual and Empirical Problem

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 15-38

  4. From Betancourt to Chávez: Interpreting Venezuelan Populism in Two Revolutionary Governments

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 39-70

  5. Anti-Leftist Populism in McCarthyism and the Tea Party

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 71-103

  6. Comparing Populism in Venezuela and the United States

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 105-120

  7. Everything in History Happens: Further Problems with Populism as a Comparative-Historical Phenomenon

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 121-131

  8. Conclusion

    • Ritchie Savage
    Pages 133-139

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 141-152
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About this book

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 Acción Democrática, Chávez, 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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA

    Ritchie Savage

About the author

Ritchie Savage is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baruch College (CUNY), John Jay College (CUNY), and Pratt Institute in New York City, USA. He researches populism and political discourse and specializes in social and political theory, language, culture, movements, and psychoanalysis.

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