Timothy Appleton The writer José Miguel Rojo perhaps spoke on behalf of many people when, in his 2018 article in El Salto, he mentioned the end of the populist sequence in Spain. [1] He argued that “the populist moment” had started in 2011, after the financial crisis, and started to decline with Pod...

The purpose of this article is to draw a conceptual approach to the phenomenon of populism in its Spanish variant. Our hypothesis is that an idea of such blurred boundaries, dark meanings and even contradictory senses such as ‘populism’ can gain greater clarity and distinction when analysed from the...

The empirical analysis of developments in the Front National’s socio-economic programme since the 1980s shows that the party has gradually moved away from its original neoliberal preferences to adopt a redistributive, protectionist and interventionist agenda, the centre of gravity of which is now to...

This paper explores the development of four electorally consolidated populist parties, i.e. the Italian FSM and Northern League, Podemos in Spain and the French FN. Adopting a supply-side approach based on the ‘thin-ideology’ paradigm, we propose a fine-grained analysis of the populist claims by tho...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

International audience The special issue analyzed the impact of populism on foreign policy in a range of European cases. By developing a common analytical framework and applying it across several case studies and policy areas, the special issue makes a contribution to nascent efforts at theorizing t...

The author of this article reconstructs Trotsky's itinerary, from his critic of Russian populism up to the Second World War. He shows how Trotsky's break with the positivist marxism of the Second International paves the way for his "permanent revolution", and how his adoption of the Jacobin-Leninist...

the University of Liège organises the Left-wing populism colloquium. History, theory, practice "on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 October 2021. The event will host 50 academics from 5 disciplines (political science, history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology), 15 countries and 4 continents.

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"and if my country was peaceful and prosperous, it was because my people, perhaps smarter than others on the continent, had re-elected me three, four — how many times? — although the sustainability of power was a guarantee of material well-being and political balance. “Alejo Carpentier, The Use of M...

[ES] aims to analyse new ways of controlling political parties over their militants. The concept of useful voting, active militancy and the deterioration of conscientious voting will be analysed. The imperative mandate as well as new representative formulas and the core of participatory democracy wi...

Paru il y a deux mois aux éditions « Sintesis » dans une collection idéale pour les étudiants étonnante de clarté et effectivement très synthétique comme son nom l’indique, La tentación populista. Una vía al poder en América latina aborde la question plus que jamais d’actualité mais délicate car sou...

The refusal to position itself on the right-left axis characterises the movement of Yellow Gilets constantly back-to-back to political formations rather than taking one of them. However, when they appear in France, the Gilets jaunes express themselves in a public space that is already fuelled by pre...

It is argued that the Europe of the last quarter of the 20th century saw a shift in social control of violence due to the rise of the European Union and the expansion of the crime-winning crime. European states are overwhelmed by the growth in violence that makes use of new technologies and is entre...

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While I write the introductory notes to this monograph section on Populism, anti-politics and challenges to democracy, it takes a couple of months of European elections announcing triionfals for populist parties. In almost all the countries called to vote, there are — and, according to surveys, are...

The analysis of the results of the first round of the 2017 presidential election shows that half of the voters voted for party candidates developing populist views. Populism is rooted in the French political space. In particular, he proposed to develop direct democracy to the dependencies of represe...

This work is primarily aimed at verifying whether the Bolivarian Revolution contains theoretical elements of what academics in political science call populism, and more recently neo-populism. In this regard, a methodology was used through descriptive research using primary sources, authors such as W...

Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are two populist leaders, both qualified and claiming themselves as such. The heart of their rhetoric is the people. But does this people, if often mobilised, return to the same people or to different bodies, each not addressing “the” people but “their” people? A...

This thesis offers a study of the concept of populism today, through a comparison between French and Japanese cases. It focuses on election campaigns and the study of elements present in newspapers articles. The reasoning is divided into two parts. The first one analyzes the current problems of the...

our democracies suffer from new diseases. Like those contracted in hospital, they come from the inside, from the democratic game itself. Populism is thus a desettlement of some of our political systems that are not able to respond to globalisation. Not all of them die, but they are all affected. In...