Spain has been one of the hardest hit countries by the COVID-19 pandemic, and this crisis
presented a window of opportunity for VOX, as it has for other far right parties, to raise its …

Shifting attention away from policy achievements and effects on democracy, this book
focuses on the charismatic function of populist discourse–comprising antagonistic …

What is left-wing populism? Is it just populist rhetoric grafted onto a left-wing ideology? How
can we distinguish the populist left from the socialist left, the communist left and the radical …

Populism and institutions have been characterized as antithetical to each other by Ernesto
Laclau. Yet the Latin American pink tide has offered many instances of left populism in …

This article argues that while nationalist discourses construct “the people” through positive
identity practices, populist discourses articulate it through negative identity practices …

The classic pejorative designation of populism currently coexists with its recent vindication.
From certain left-wing political and intellectual circles, the revival of this category is part of a …

Populism and the rule of law have been more often than not depicted as necessarily
antithetical to each other. Although it has received less attention in the relevant literature …

This research aims to understand the struggle of La Via Campesina member farmer
organizations in Ecuador to successfully integrate the food sovereignty agenda into the …

The political turn of Lenín Moreno, heir apparent of the previous Ecuadorian pres-ident
Rafael Correa, was an unexpected political event. However, this change of di-rection did not …

The proliferation of populist actors, and their transition from the margins of the political
system to power, raises the pressing question of how populism changes once it moves from …