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- Title
Defining Populism and the Problem of Indeterminacy.
- Authors
PÂRVU, CAMIL-ALEXANDRU
- Abstract
This article examines several approaches to the task of defining populism. The important conceptual difficulties are produced by the apparent lack of a meaningful common core among the various local instantiations. Strategies to avoid the indeterminacy of a minimal conceptual core tend then to either appeal to the idea of "populism as the pathology of democracy", or to associate it with the radical rejection of the complexity of political representation. This article examines the conditions in which the very indeterminacy of populism's conceptual core ensures its quasipermanent presence.
- Subjects
POPULISM; INDETERMINISM (Philosophy); DEMOCRACY; RADICALISM; TEA Party movement (U.S.)
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2013, Vol 21, p175
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article