Like air, nationalism is both ubiquitous and elusive. It permeates the global system, states,
peoples' behavior and can be seen as both conservative and as a revolutionary force …

This chapter aims to briefly map out what scholars say populism is. It focuses on how
populists use the media. Sociologists and historians first used the concept of populism to …

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African
politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential …

Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country, populists are being voted into
office. Populism and Patronage shows that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and …

This paper considers the foundations of contemporary African urban economies and how
these intersect with the evolution of urban politics, carving a route through a wide range of …

How do populists visually represent “the people”? While the literature on populism has
tended to focus on text-and language-based documents, such as speeches, policies, and …

Ellner, S. 2013.“Social and Political Diversity and the Democratic Road to Change in
Venezuela.” Latin American Perspectives 40 (3): 63–82. El Telegrafo. 2014.“Ecuador …

Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a
wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that …