Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Anthony Pereira -- Intellectual imperialism and selection bias in the study of populism / Stacey Hunt -- Popular sovereignty, institutionality, and the dilemmas of democratizing democracy / Anthony Spanakos -- Populisms in power : plural and ambiguous / Katerina Hatzikidi -- Economic globalization and populism in Latin America and beyond / Paula Rettl -- The political economy and political psychology of public support for right-wing populism in comparative perspective / Diogo Ferrari -- Voting for violence : the new middle-class and authoritarian populist presidents in the Philippines and Brazil / Cecilia Lero -- Populism and anti-globalism on Twitter : similarities of conspiratorial discourse and content diffusion on social networks In Brazil, Spain, Latin America, and Italy / Ana Carolina Raposo de Mello and Felipe Estre -- "I will end everything" : Brazilian far-right populism, scorched earth politics and the erasure of bureaucrats' memories / Gabriela Lotta, Amon Barros, and Ana Diniz -- Narendra Modi and the police In India : national populism, politics of fear, victimization, and cultural policing / Christophe Jaffrelot -- Bolsonaro's Brazil : national populism and the role of the police / Renato Sérgio de Lima -- The hydroxychloroquine alliance : how far-right leaders and alt-science preachers came together to tout a miraculous drug / David Magalhães and Guilherme Casarões -- Populism, the pandemic, and the crisis of Bolsonarismo / Leonardo Avritzer and Lúcio Rennó -- Four-squared denialism : the uses of fake news for the political construction of identity in Bolsonaro's populist government during the pandemic / Vinícius de Souza Struari and Rodrigo Otávio Moretti-Pires -- "Enfrentar vírus como homem" : Bolsonaro's populism and performing hegemonic masculinity during the COVID-19 pandemic / Théo Aiolfi and Giulia Champion -- Conclusion / Anthony Pereira.

"With contributions from 22 scholars and empirical material from 29 countries within and beyond Latin America, this book identifies subtypes of populism to further understand right-wing populist movements, parties, leaders, and governments. It seeks to examine whether the term populism continues to have any validity and what relationship(s) it has to democracy. Part 1 is an exploration of populism as an analytical concept. It asks how populism can and should be defined; whether populism can be broken down into subtypes; and whether the use of the term within and beyond Latin America in recent scholarship has been consistent. Part 2 focuses on political economy, and specifically whether political economy explanations of both the causes and consequences of right-wing populism fit recent cases in Latin America, Europe, and the Philippines. Part 3 examines institutions, and in particular institutions of coercion and digital communication. It contains chapter studies on various aspects of populism in Brazil, Spain, India, and Italy. Part 4 concerns the coronavirus pandemic and the specific case of right-wing populism in Brazil. It examines the Bolsonaro government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, and how that response exacerbated the health crisis and reduced the government's popularity. Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond is a timely and socially relevant contribution to the understanding of contemporary challenges to democracy. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners eager to understand the rise in right-wing agendas across the globe"--