Podemos and the New Political Cycle

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction: Wind of Change: Podemos, Its Dreams and Its Politics
Óscar García Agustín, Marco Briziarelli

Part II. Genealogy

2. The Rise of Podemos: Promises, Constraints, and Dilemmas
César Rendueles, Jorge Sola

3. The Podemos Discourse: A Journey from Antagonism to Agonism
Javier Franzé

4. Podemos’ Performative Power: Space Struggles and/as Political Transformation
Susana Martínez Guillem

Part III. Concepts

5. Podemos’ Twofold Assault on Hegemony: The Possibilities of the Post-Modern Prince and the Perils of Passive Revolution
Marco Briziarelli

6. Populism, Hegemony, and the Phantasmatic Sovereign: The Ties Between Nationalism and Left-Wing Populism
Emmy Eklundh

7. We the People or We the Republic? The Need for Republican Populism
Óscar García Agustín

Part IV. Comparative Perspectives

8. Podemos and Latin America
Salvador Schavelzon, Jeffery R. Webber

9. Radical Left Populism from the Margins to the Mainstream: A Comparison of Syriza and Podemos
Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Giorgos Katsambekis

10. Southern European Populisms as Counter-Hegemonic Discourses? A Comparative Perspective of Podemos and M5S
Samuele Mazzolini, Arthur Borriello

11. Between the Populist Left and Right: Discursive Structure and Ideological Interventions in Podemos and the National Front
Michael De Caridad Ledezma

Part V. Conclusion

12. Left-Wing Populism and the Assault on the Establishment
Óscar García Agustín, Marco Briziarelli

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Democracy, Political History