Populism and the enchanted world of 'moderate politics' | openDemocracy - 1 views
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I essentially question the epistemological flaws surrounding the uses of the notion: when is it safe to call a politician, a political party or movement ‘populist’?
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The stakes are high because to label someone as ‘populist’ is to imply that s/he is somehow a potential or real enemy of representative democracy. My critic refers to the ‘pernicious effects’ of populism which underlines the notion’s very negative connotation. Let me here reply to Catherine Fieschi’s major criticisms.
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Cas Mudde, one of the major specialists on the subject, concedes that populism is a ‘thin-centred ideology’.
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