Approaches on a controversial phenomenon: populism and its relationship with liberal democracy, from Gino Germani to Cas Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser
Within the field of social sciences, populism is an ambiguous concept and has been characterized as polysemic. There are different elements that contribute to its complexity and sow the need to approach a detailed analysis of it: the "verbal smoke" that surrounds it, as Arditi (2010) says,...
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EDUCC - Editorial de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.bibdigital.uccor.edu.ar/index.php/SP/article/view/5592 |
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| Sumario: | Within the field of social sciences, populism is an ambiguous concept and has been characterized as polysemic. There are different elements that contribute to its complexity and sow the need to approach a detailed analysis of it: the "verbal smoke" that surrounds it, as Arditi (2010) says, the slippage of political strategy/questioning leadership from the status quo to a political regime of government as mentioned by Peruzzotti (2017) and its emergence in modern and industrial societies, in contrast to the thought of Germani (1962). With enlightening claims, the proposal of this article seeks to follow the path of the main theoretical productions on the subject. The objective of the text is to carry out a review of the most important theoretical contributions about the populist phenomenon, emphasizing the populism-liberal democracy relationship. To meet this objective, four approaches will be worked on: the key perspective of the social modernization process of Gino Germani (1962) and Germani and Torcuato Di Tella (1973), the historical-structural perspective of Carlos de la Torre and Peruzzotti (2008), the ideological-discursive perspective proposed by Laclau (1978, 1996, 2005), Mouffe (2019) and María Esperanza Casullo (2014, 2019) and, finally, the ideational perspective of Mudde and Rovira (2019) and Moffit (2022). This last approach will be treated in more depth since it has the particularity of combining ideological, discursive and institutional aspects. It has been built by contemporary political science from previous contributions of that discipline, sociology and political sociology. The methodological strategy used to meet the proposed goals will be the bibliographic review. |
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