Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' introduction -- Part I. New historical perspectives on populism -- Section I. Right-wing populism and the rise of national socialism in Germany -- Peter Fritzsche - The role of "the people" and the rise of the Nazis -- Geoff Eley - Conservatives...radical nationalists...fascists : calling the people into politics, 1890-1930 -- Larry Eugene Jones - Germany's conservative elites and the problem of political mobilization in the Weimar Republic -- Section II. Populism in the Balkans from the late nineteenth century to the present -- Mark Biondich - Nationalism and populism in the Balkans : the case of Croatia -- Nenad Stefanov - The people as a "happening" : constellations of populism in Serbia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- York Norman - Alija Izetbegović's Islamic declaration and populism in Bosnia -- Section III. Transformations of populism in the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Gary Marotta - Richard Hofstadter's populist problem and his identity as a Jewish intellectual -- Charles Postel - The American populist and anti-populist legacy -- Ronald Formisano - Populist movements in U.S. history : progressive and reactionary -- Section IV. Populism in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1920-1960 -- Gillian McGillivray and Thomas Rogers - Populism in the circum-Caribbean, 1920s-1950s -- Joel Wolfe - Populist discourses, developmentalist policies : rethinking mid-twentieth century Brazilian politics -- Matthew Karush - Populism as an identity : four propositions on Peronism -- Bridget Chesterton - Performing populism in Paraguay : Febrerismo on stage in the works of Correa and Ruffinelli, 1933-1943 -- Part II. Historical theories of populism -- John Abromeit - Transformations of Producerist populism in Western Europe -- Mark Loeffler - Populists and parasites : on Producerist reason -- Part III. Recent tendencies in populist movements in Latin America, Europe, and the US -- Cas Mudde - Populist radical-right parties in Europe today -- Peter Breiner - Ideologies of economic populism in America and their subversion by the Right -- Carlos de La Torre - The contested meanings of democratic and populist revolutions in Latin America.