TITLE:
Populist Political, Discursive and Ideological Definitions
AUTHORS:
Nancy del Rocio Flores Hinojosa
KEYWORDS:
Political Sciences, Political Currents, Political Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.9,
September
16,
2021
ABSTRACT: This scientific contribution questions the economic, discursive and
ideological definitions of populism and
defends and develops a political-strategic conceptualization. The method
used in this contribution is a bibliographic review under the search criteria
“populist political currents” in the Web of Science database. In this way, 52
documents are detected. This academic material was reduced to 43 documents
which were related and referenced in this manuscript. In addition, this
research considers and refers to the material delivered in the Political Systems subject of the Doctorate in Public
Administration program, of the National
University of the Littoral, Faculty of Economic Sciences. The resulting
definition emphasizes personalistic leadership that is based on the direct, unmediated, and institutionalized
support of large masses of mostly unorganized followers. The
contribution of this manuscript, resolved in: A theorization of populism. Analysis of the current discursive field of populism. Declaration of the common
practices of populist leaders. A vision of the decline of notions of economic
populism. Study of the incongruities between style and form, rhetoric and
reality, of the populist currents. And last but not least, an analysis of the
persistent confusion about populism.