Populism in the Civil Sphere Alexander Paperback Polity Press 9781509544745

Populism in the Civil Sphere\nby Jeffrey C Alexander\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jeffrey C Alexander\nTitle: Populism in the Civil Sphere\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology and anthropology\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781509544745\nISBN-10: 1509544747\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nEven as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of \u201Cpopulism\u201D by bringing a new social theory to bear and, in so do.