Rethinking Populism: Clarifying a Contested Concept

• In Event: Populism and Democracy

Brief Overview

This paper reviews the literature on populism before proposing its own “classical” definition. This definition is then coupled with a formal model and employed to explain divergent understandings of populism across multi-party and two-party systems.

Authors

• James Fahey, University of Florida

• Kaitlyn Ivey Widner, University of Florida