Is Populism a Political Strategy? A Critique of an Enduring Approach

The political-strategic approach is one of the most employed frameworks within the methodologically heterogeneous subfield of populism studies. In the last two decades, it has contributed to the analysis of populism both in Latin America and the United States and, more recently, in Western and Easte...

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Published in:Political studies 2021-05, Vol.69 (2), p.167-184
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