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Contemporary Populists in PowerPopulists in Power: A Comparative Perspective

Contemporary Populists in Power: Populists in Power: A Comparative Perspective [Rather than starting from an elusive definition of populism, it is more helpful to look at the three meanings of the term “people”: the political dimension (the people as sovereign)—the historical and cultural dimension (the people as a community sharing a collective identity)—the social dimension (the people as the working classes). Populism is strongly linked either with the cultural approach (right-wing populism) or the social approach (left-wing populism). Although leaning in different directions, both populisms share the same political style. For long an opposition force, populists are more often in power nowadays. However, their participation in power depends on structural factors, such as the type of regime and the voting system, which give them a variable parliamentary representation. The ways in which power is exercised at the governmental level are also highly variable and this has direct consequences on the type of policies they implement.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Contemporary Populists in PowerPopulists in Power: A Comparative Perspective

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Dieckhoff, Alain; Jaffrelot, Christophe; Massicard, Elise
Dieckhoff, Alain
Contemporary Populists in Power — Feb 28, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
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978-3-030-84078-5
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15 –31
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10.1007/978-3-030-84079-2_2
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Abstract

[Rather than starting from an elusive definition of populism, it is more helpful to look at the three meanings of the term “people”: the political dimension (the people as sovereign)—the historical and cultural dimension (the people as a community sharing a collective identity)—the social dimension (the people as the working classes). Populism is strongly linked either with the cultural approach (right-wing populism) or the social approach (left-wing populism). Although leaning in different directions, both populisms share the same political style. For long an opposition force, populists are more often in power nowadays. However, their participation in power depends on structural factors, such as the type of regime and the voting system, which give them a variable parliamentary representation. The ways in which power is exercised at the governmental level are also highly variable and this has direct consequences on the type of policies they implement.]

Published: Feb 28, 2022

Keywords: Populism; People; Sovereignty; Community; Identity; Class; Power; Representation

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