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19 junio 2019

TITLE: Populisms. A Quick Immersion
Author: Carlos de la Torre
Volume: 2
Pages: 200
Binding: paperback binding
Closed format: 12,7 x 20,3 cm
Spine: 12,0 mm
Body paper: 90 gr. Offset. White. 1 ink print
Cover: Card 250 gr. Printed to 4 + 0
ISBN: 978-1-949845-01-3
Price: 15.- Euros
Cataloging data:
JPF: Ideologías políticas
JPH: Estructura y procesos políticos
JPV: Control y libertades políticas

About the Series:
Quick Immersions uses intellectual rigor and easy language to offer a good introduction, or deeper knowledge, on diverse
issues, as well-structured texts by prestigious authors delve into the worlds of political and social sciences, philosophy,
science and the humanities.
Book Summary:
Populisms a Quick Immersion analyzes populism globally and through the lens of Latin America, where populists have
governed since the 1930s and 1940s up to the present. When populism is analyzed globally, the novelty is not its presence in
most regions of the world. After all, populists have challenged the power of political and economic elites since the nineteenth
century, and the first self-described Populist Party was formed in the U.S. in 1891. What is new is that populists are in office
not only in Venezuela, Bolivia, the Philippines and Turkey but also in the U.S. as well as other consolidated Western liberal
democracies like Italy. By learning from the experiences of populism in the global south, citizens, activists, journalists and
politicians in the global north might avoid making the same mistakes when dealing with populists in power.
Biography of the author:
Carlos de la Torre is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky and an Emeritus Professor at FLACSO-Ecuador. He
earned his PhD at the New School for Social Research, and was granted fellowships at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. De la Torre has published a dozen books and more
than one hundred articles and chapters in academic publications. Among his top books are his edited volumes The Routledge
Handbook of Global Populism (2019), The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives (The University Press of
Kentucky, 2015) and Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Cynthia J. Arnson (the Johns
Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013). The second edition of his Populist Seduction in Latin
America (Ohio University Press) was published in 2010.