Book Reviews
Beyond Populism: Two ways of Rethinking the Contemporary Right
Recent scholarship on the contemporary right has generated an abundant vocabulary: populism, authoritarianism, illiberalism, democratic backsliding. These terms capture real features, but often only one dimension at a time. “Populism” can flatten ideology into style or anti-elite performance; “authoritarianism” and “backsliding” can describe institutional effects without saying much about the wider social energies and historical processes that sustain them. What often drops out is the question of the right’s deeper political form, its social bases, and its conditions of possibility.
12.05.2026
