Populism, politics and democracy

Democratization

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 625-632

  Bernard, Crick ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Civic republicanism; Political equality; Populism

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; DEMOCRACY; MEDIA ROLE; POLITICS;

EID: 31344481494     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510340500321985     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. R.V. Rieu, (ed.), Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, trans. Rex Warner (London: Penguin, 1954), pp.117-19.
2. Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics, 5th ed. (London: Continuum, 2000), first published in 1962. The last edition admits that the first edition can now appear overly optimistic in only considering politics within states rather than among states.
3. The Politics of Aristotle, trans. and intro. Ernest Barker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1946), p.51.
4. Margaret Canovan, 'Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy', Political Studies, Vol.47, No.1 (1999), pp.2-16. Canovan has been a notable commentator on Hannah Arendt.
5. Jack Hayward, 'The Populist Challenge to Elitist Democracy in Europe', in J. Hayward (ed.), Eliticism, Populism and European Politics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).
6. Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship (London: Continuum, 2001) and the report of an advisory group I chaired: Education for Democracy and Citizenship in Schools (London: Department of Education, 1998).
7. Peter Worsley, 'The Concept of Populism', in G. Ionescu and E. Gellner (eds), Populism: Its Meaning and National Characteristics (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1969), p.245. Ionescu and Gellner's book is still one of the best modern accounts.
8. See Bernard Crick, Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
9. Margaret Canovan (note 4) ends her fine article on populism by pointing to 'the inescapable ambiguity of democracy' (p.15). See also her Populism (London: Junction Books, 1981).
10. But Benjamin Arditi, 'Populism as a Spectre of Democracy: A Response to Canovan', Political Studies, Vol.52, No.1 (2004), pp.135-43, offers 'a friendly interrogation' that (following a distinction of Michael Oakeshott's) puts more stress on the politics of faith than on the politics of scepticism.