New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2023. This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. From the Contents: 22 South Korea: Still the 'politics of the vortex’? A historical analysis of party solidarities and populism (Kan Kimura); 25. Populism in Japan: actors or institutions? (Toru Yoshida).