An Interface between Political Culture, Populism and Political Inclusion

Contemporary happenings around the centrality of political culture and its impacts on the duo of political inclusion and populism call for renewed efforts at deconstructing its nitty-gritties. Nuanced discussions must be exerted towards finding out why popular cultures have always engendered and calibrated populist currents. The question of political inclusion always revolves around the primacy attached to cultural diversity, which in turn paves the way for political choices that address every stratum of any given polity. The book identifies that populist currents continue to determine democratic choices and electoral victories in a number of larger democracies. The effects of this development are spreading fast to the Global South and have begun to challenge the hitherto monolithic conception of liberal democracy. The strong aura of popular culture manifests more strongly where religion is involved. Then, the debate as to whether it should be given a space in public places rents the air. At another time, memories of 9/11 attacks are exhumed to conduct a feasibility test of allowing it public places. These developments go further to impact on the strategies of party formation and carving out of workable ideologies that determine their continuity. Other interesting phenomena are accorded their right analyses across the pages of the book. One of its giveaways is the fact that the concept of populism has succeeded in carving out a permanent niche for itself - it is one of the inevitabiities of contemporary liberal of democracy.