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The analysis of these ideologies centers on an examination of four themes: (1) how the concept of the people has been used to combine employers and employees as producers against the mob as an unproductive outgroup; (2) how the ideas of the people and the mob have been related to that of the crowd; (3) how the qualities associated with the mob have been extended to other groups in society, including financiers and Jews; (4) how the ideologies under study have been defined by core imperatives, including the quest for mass support, that make them a flexible combination of divergent and sometimes syncretic concepts rather than a fixed and coherent body of ideas.","The second part of the dissertation examines the implications of the distinction between the people and the mob for democracy. It examines, first, the ideological debate that took place during the 1984-85 miners' strike in Britain, second, the dilemma of reconciling populism with pluralism in the new democracies of Eastern Europe. These cases illustrate that while the concept of the people might appear to be preeminently democratic, when this idea is used in conjunction with the mob it allows coercive or repressive actions against political opponents to be justified in the name of the people against the mob.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:45:50Z (GMT). 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