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- Title
¿QUIÉN LE TEME AL POPULISMO? LA POLÍTICA ENTRE LA REDENCIÓN Y EL AUTORITARISMO.
- Authors
DE LA TORRE, CARLOS
- Abstract
I argue that in order to understand the relationships between populism, democratization, and authoritarianism scholars should build on the long Latin American experiences with populism. Differently from other world areas, in Latin America populists did not only challenge elites, but governed since the 1940s. Latin American social scientists developed theories of populism since Gino Germani wrote his seminal works in the 1950s. Furthermore, in Latin America populism manifested its more benign and inclusionary faces, whereas in Europe and the U.S. rightwing populists are racist and xenophobic. My second argument is for the need to differentiate the populist critique to constituted power from its solutions. Even though populists show the exclusions of real existing democracies, their solutions reduce the complexities of civil society and democracy to the struggle between to antagonistic camps. My third argument is that inclusion and democratization are not the same. Peronism and Chavism included politically, economically, and ethically the excluded while attempting against pluralism, transforming rivals into enemies, and closing spaces to the opposition. Finally, all populisms are not the same. Even though they share a political logic, they use different criteria to construct the people and their enemies. Some politicize socioeconomic exclusions, other use culture and ethnicity to mark boundaries of who belongs to the nation.
- Publication
Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez, 2019, Issue 53, p29
- ISSN
0008-7750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30827/ACFS.v53i0.7297