Populist Discourse in Pakistani Politics: Testing a New Two-Dimensional Model of Inclusionary and Exclusionary Populist Discourse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789819680269)

Dr. Fizza Batool is a Pakistani academic specializing in populism, religious nationalism, and democratization. She serves as an Assistant Professor at SZABIST University, Karachi. Holding a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Karachi, she has worked in academia and policy think tanks for over a decade. Her recent co-authored publication with Dr. Ihsan Yilmaz, Populist Identification in Public Discourse, is recognized as the first comprehensive book on populism in Pakistan and the first work using Laclau's discourse theory to understand the demand side of populism. Dr. Batool has served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute in Budapest, and a South Asian Voices (SAV) Visiting Fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C.