Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-cnmwb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-18T22:01:42.989Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

State of the Art: ‘The People’ and Their Social Rights: What Is Distinctive About the Populism-Religion-Social Policy Nexus?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2021

Rana Jawad ,
Daniel Béland  and
Emmanuele Pavolini
Rana Jawad
Affiliation:
University of Bath, E-mail: R.Jawad@bath.ac.uk
Daniel Béland
Affiliation:
McGill University, E-mail: daniel.beland@mcgill.ca
Emmanuele Pavolini
Affiliation:
University of Macerata, E-mail: emmanuele.pavolini@unimc.it
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The aims of this review article are two-fold: (1) to set out the key theoretical trends in the study of religion, populism and social policy as antithetical concepts that also share common concerns; (2) to re-assert the relevance of social policy to the social and political sciences by making the case for studying outlier or indeed rival topics together – in this case populism and religion. Social policy scholars do not necessarily associate these two topics with modern social policy, yet they have a long history of influence on societies all over the world; populism is also especially timely in our current era. The article contributes to the literature by: (a) helping social policy better understand its diverse and at times contradictory constituencies; (b) contributing to a more complex and inclusive understanding of social policy and, therefore, social welfare. In setting out the state-of-the-art, the article also draws upon research on social policy which spans various continents (North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and Latin America) and a preceding paper collaboration by the authors on religion and social policy (Pavolini et al., 2017).

Keywords

PopulismLatin AmericaIslamic populismreligionChristianity
Type
Themed Section: Populism, Religion and Social Policy
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 267 - 281
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Brubaker, R. (2017) ‘Why populism?’, Theory and Society, 46, 357–85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Canovan, M. (2004) ‘Populism for political theorists?’, Journal of Political Ideologies, 9, 3, 241–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Corbett, S. and Walker, A. (2019) ‘Review Article. Between neoliberalism and nationalist populism: what role for the ‘European social model’ and social quality in post-Brexit Europe?’, Social Policy and Society, 18, 1, 93–106.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dean, J. and Maiguashca, B. (2020) ‘Did somebody say populism? Towards a renewal and reorientation of populism studies’, Journal of Political Ideologies, 25, 1, 11-27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Cleen, B., Glynos, J. and Mondaon, A. (2018) ‘Critical research on populism: nine rules of engagement’, Organization, 25, 5, 649–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Errejón, I. and Mouffe, Y. C. (2015) Construir Pueblo, Icara: Madrid.Google Scholar
Fink-Hafner, D. (2016) ‘A typology of populisms and changing forms of society: the case of Slovenia’, Europe-Asia Studies, 68, 8, 1315–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hadiz, V. R. (2014) ‘A new Islamic populism and the contradictions of development’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44, 1, 125-43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hadiz, V. R. (2018) ‘Imagine all the people? Mobilising Islamic populism for right-wing politics in Indonesia’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48, 4, 566-83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hawkins, K. A. (2010) Venezuela’s Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective, New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hemericjk, A. (2013) Changing Welfare States, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Jansen, R. J. (2011) ‘Populist mobilization: a new theoretical approach to populism’, Sociological Theory, 29, 2, 75-96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jawad, R. (2009) Social Welfare and Religion in the Middle East: A Lebanese Perspective, The Policy Press, Bristol.Google Scholar
Jenson, J. (2010) Defining and Measuring Social Cohesion, Hampshire: Commonwealth Secretariat and United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Judis, J. B. (2016) ‘Rethinking populism’, Dissent, 63, 4, 116-22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katsambekis, G. (2014) ‘The place of the people in post-democracy: researching “antipopulism” and post-democracy in crisis-ridden Greece’, Postdata, 19, 2, 555–82.Google Scholar
Ketola, M. and Nordensvard, J. (2018) ‘Reviewing the relationship between social policy and the contemporary populist radical right: welfare chauvinism, welfare nation state and social citizenship’, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 34, 3, 169-71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laclau, E. (2007) On Populist Reason, London: Verso Books.Google Scholar
Margalit, Y. (2019) ‘Economic insecurity and the causes of populism, reconsidered’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 33, 4, 152–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moffitt, B. and Tormey, S. (2014) ‘Rethinking populism: politics, mediatisation and political style’, Political Studies, 62, 2, 381–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mouzelis, N. (1985) ‘On the concept of populism: populist and clientelist modes of incorporation in semiperipheral polities’, Politics and Society, 14, 329-48.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mudde, C. (2004) ‘The populist Zeitgeist ’, Government and Opposition, 39, 3, 541–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mudde, C. (2020) ‘Will the coronavirus ‘kill populism’? Don’t count on it’, The Guardian Newspaper, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/coronavirus-populism-trump-politics-response [accessed 27.03.2020].Google Scholar
Mudde, C. and Kaltwasser, C. R. (2018) ‘Populism’ in Freeden, M. and Stears, M. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Müller, J.-W. (2016) What is Populism?, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nilsson DeHanas, D. and Shterin, M. (2018) ‘Religion and the rise of populism’, Religion, State and Society, 46, 3, 177-85.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ostiguy, P. (2009) ‘The high and the low in politics: a two-dimensional political space for comparative analysis and electoral studies’, Kellogg Institute, https://kellogg.nd.edu/sites/default/files/old_files/documents/360_0.pdf [accessed 17.06.20].Google Scholar
Pavolini, E., Béland, D. and Jawad, R. (2017) ‘Mapping the relationship between religion and social policy’, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33, 3, 240-60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Payne, S. F. (2008) ‘On the heuristic value of the concept of political religion and its application’, in Griffin, R., Mallett, R. and Tortorice, J. (eds.), The Sacred in Twentieth-Century Politics: Essays in Honour of Professor Stanley G. Payne, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 21–35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peters, G. B. and Pierre, J. (2020) ‘A typology of populism: understanding the different forms of populism and their implications’, Democratization, doi: 10.1080/13510347.2020.1751615.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Priego, A. (2018) ‘El populismo islámico: una respuesta no occidental a la globalización Islamic populism: a non-Western response to globalisation’, Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, 119, 161-84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rydgren, J. (2004) ‘Explaining the Emergence of radical right-wing populist parties: the case of Denmark’, West European Politics, 27, 3, 474-502.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Salamey, I. and Pearson, F. (2007) ‘Hezbollah: a proletarian party with an Islamic manifesto – a sociopolitical analysis of Islamist populism in Lebanon and the Middle East’, Small Wars and Insurgencies, 18, 3, 416-38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, G. and Woodhead, L. (2018) ‘Religion and Brexit: populism and the Church of England’, Religion, State and Society, 46, 3, 206-23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Speed, E. and Mannion, R. (2017) ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy’, International Journal of Health Policy Management, 6, 5, 249–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Stavrakakis, Y., Katsambekis, G., Kioupkiolis, A., Nikisianis, N. and Siomos, T. (2018) ‘Populism, anti-populism and crisis’, Contemporary Political Theory, 17, 1, 14-27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor-Gooby, P. (2012) The Double Crisis of the Welfare State, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar
Tormey, S. (2018) ‘Populism: democracy’s Pharmakon?’, Policy Studies, 39, 3, 260-73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zúquete, J. P. (2017) ‘Populism and religion’, in Kaltwasser, C. R., Taggart, P., Espejo, P. O. and Os, P., The Oxford Handbook of Populism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar