Abstract
The last Olympic Games were accompanied by a stream of complaints in the British press about the poor performance of our athletes. This reached such a pitch that it was even suggested, half seriously, that the only thing to be done (if we were to be able to look forward to the next Games without shame) was to promote the formation of a European Olympic team. The EU as a whole ought to field a single team, for that would mean (so it was argued) that the reserves of talent available to it might well be enough to win more gold medals than the USA. We would at last be able to relax in front of our television sets and take pride in the performance of ‘our’ boys and girls.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
REFERENCES
Billig, M., Banal Nationalism (London, Sage, 1995).
Barber, B., Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1984).
Barber, B., ‘Jihad vs McWorld’, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 269, No. 3, 1992, pp. 53–63.
Betz, H.-G., Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe (London, Macmillan, 1994).
Brubaker, R., Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992).
Canovan, M., Populism (New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981).
Canovan, M., ‘ “People”, Politicians and Populism’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1984, pp. 312–27.
Colley, L., Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992).
Fishkin, J. S., Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991).
Goodwyn, L., Democratic Promise: the Populist Moment in America (New York, Oxford University Press, 1976).
Haider, J., The Freedom I Mean (Pine Plains, Swan Books, 1995).
Hayward, J. (ed.), The Crisis of Representation in Europe (London, Frank Cass, 1995).
Ionescu, G. and Gellner, E., Populism: Its Meanings and National Characteristics (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969).
Kazin, M., The Populist Persuasion: an American History (New York, Basic Books, 1995).
Kobach, K. W., ‘Switzerland’, in Butler, D. and Ranney, A. (eds), Referendums around the World: the Growing Use of Direct Democracy (London, Macmillan, 1994), pp. 98–153.
Marcus, J., The National Front and French Politics: the Resistible Rise of Jean- Marie Le Pen (London, Macmillan, 1995).
Meehan, E., Citizenship and the European Community (London, Sage, 1993).
Mill, J. S., Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government (London, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1910).
Mulhall, S. and Swift, A., Liberals and Communitarians (Oxford, Blackwell, 1992).
Oldfield, A., Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World (London, Routledge, 1990).
Pateman, C., Participation and Democratic Theory (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1960).
Rahe, P. A., Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1992).
Smith, A. D., ‘National Identity and the Idea of European Unity’, International Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 1, 1992, pp. 55–76.
Tassin, E., ‘Europe: a Political Community?’, in Mouffe, C. (ed.), Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (London, Verso, 1992), pp. 169–92.
Taylor, C., ‘Institutions in National Life’, in Laforest, G. (ed.), Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism (Montreal, McGill- Queens University Press, 1993), pp. 120–34.
Wallace, W. and Smith, J., ‘Democracy or Technocracy? European Integration and the Problem of Popular Consent’, in Hayward, J. (ed.), The Crisis of Representation in Europe (London, Frank Cass, 1995), pp. 137–57.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Canovan, M. (2000). Who are ‘We’? Populists, Democrats and the People. In: Andrew, J., Crook, M., Waller, M. (eds) Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983065_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983065_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-40538-1
Online ISBN: 978-0-333-98306-5
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies CollectionSocial Sciences (R0)