Populism: A Very Short Introduction

Liberal Illiberalism? The Reshaping of the Contemporary Populist Radical Right in Northern Europe

“…Both are contested concepts-some would say they go so far as to fall into the category of being essentially contested concepts (Abbey, 2005;Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017)-but the limited focus of this article prevents us diving too deeply into these conceptual arguments. For our purposes, populism is here understood as 'a political style that features an appeal to 'the people' versus 'the elite', 'bad manners' and the performance of crisis, breakdown or threat' (Moffitt, 2016, p. 45).…”

“…The related second point is that 'ideological purists' are rare and often relegated to the electoral sidelines, and as such, it is unsurprising that PRR parties are able to mix their ideology, policy positions and discourse in a way that confounds our neat theoretical categoriesin this regard, some populists are more liberal than others. Third, the evidence of how these parties reconfigure, adopt and utilise seemingly paradoxical ideological and discursive positions lends credence to the position that populism is less a world-view or ideology (even a thin one, as in the work of Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017), and more a discourse (Stavrakakis, Katsambekis, Nikisianis, Kioupkiolis, & Siomos, 2017) or style (Moffitt, 2016): as Brubaker (2017Brubaker ( , p. 1210) notes, such 'contradictions are not surprising: bound by no stable substantive ideological or programmatic commitments, populism is distinctively and chronically eclectic, given to instrumentalizing whatever issues seem exploitable at the moment'. Today, those issues are most effectively exploited by wrapping them in a liberal package.…”

Populism in Indonesia and its Threats to Democracy

“…Political parties also tend to be oligarchic and do not fulfill promises to their constituents. The populist movements therefore consider the elite as 'corrupt elite' and populism represents the voice of the real people ('pure people') [7]. In addition to this assumption, populism believes in the sovereignty of the people who are increasingly neglected in the political process.…”

“…They are often referred to as radical left groups because they view neoliberalism and market mechanisms as ideologies that have caused the poverty among laymen and therefore need to be replaced with new development models. These campaigns that combine populism and socialism succeeded in uniting the oppressed and marginalized people against the 'corrupt elite' [7]. They argue for the need for sovereignty to be returned to the people which were then realized by the establishment of 'constituent assembly'.…”

Una Teoría Socio-Morfológica Del Populismo: El Caso Del Uribismo, 2002-2010

“…En vista de la amplitud y complejidad de la literatura sobre el populismo es importante rastrear los elementos centrales del desarrollo del concepto desde los análisis clásicos (Di Tella 1965;Ionescu y Gellner 1969;Germani 1973;Weffort y Quijano 1973;Laclau 1976;Cardoso y Foletto 1977;Canovan 1981) hasta los análisis contemporáneos (Roberts 1995;Canovan 1999;Weyland 2001;Laclau 2005;Aslanidis 2016;Arditi 2010;Mudde y Kaltwasser 2017). Los estudios clásicos del populismo intentaban descubrir el contenido social de los movimientos populistas y las condiciones sociales y económicas que alimentaban su surgimiento.…”