We the people
- The chapter argues that populism as a modern phenomenon is closely linked with the great democratic revolutions that, for the first time in history, addressed ‘the people’ as the sovereign, thereby constituting the modern citizen. Yet, ‘the people’ can and do draw boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’. In an analytical perspective the article suggests a distinction between three forms of populism, ‘organic populism’, ‘liberal economic populism’, and ‘liberal cultural populism’, that operate differently. Applying closure theory to these different forms allows understanding of the different processes of populist politics that today promote exclusion by applying differentiated strategies of social closure.
Author details: | Jürgen MackertORCiDGND |
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ISBN: | 978-1-138-09136-8 |
ISBN: | 978-1-315-10807-0 |
Title of parent work (German): | Populism and the crisis of democracy Volume 1 Concepts and Theory |
Subtitle (German): | liberal and organic populism, and the politics of social closure |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2018 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Release date: | 2019/03/01 |
Number of pages: | 18 |
First page: | 91 |
Last Page: | 108 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie |