This book explores the most important aspects of populism as a significant social
phenomenon. It recapitulates the approaches to defining populism in the social sciences …

In consonance with much of the existing scholarship, this chapter develops an ideational
approach to the study of populism. Furthermore, it proposes a minimal concept of populism …

To date there is no agreement on a definition of populism in the social sciences. If political
science deals with populism as a political ideology or a political strategy, sociology has not …

This Handbook is part of a series of works devoted to the study of political populism
published by Nomos. The three editors of this volume also share overall responsibility for the …

In general terms, the concept of populism aims to describe sociopolitical movements, forms
of government, political regimes, and/or ideological formulae that focus around the idea of …

In recent years, populism has attracted considerable interest from social scientists and
political commentators. Yet the term 'populism'remains both widely used and widely …

The analysis of contemporary (right-wing) populism often suffers from conceptual
vagueness, a short-time perspective, mass media biases, a focus on only one country or one …

The article is devoted to populism as a political phenomenon and as an object of analysis in
po-litical theory. The focus is on the debate around the definition of populism. The article …

It is becoming a kind of commonplace that every piece of writing on populism starts by
questioning the usefulness of the term due to its vague and ambiguous meaning, both in …

This chapter explores and synthesizes the defining characteristics of left-and right-wing
populism in previous research. In conclusion, populism has three modes. A first that …