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Few topics in political theory have encouraged so much commentary as the ‘thin-centred ideology’ that is populism (Mudde 2004). Where some regard populism as the opening salvos of a proto-fascist seizure of state power and the corruption of democratic institutions (Weyland 2001; Mudde 2004; Müller 2017), others regard at least some of its variants as an effective rhetorical and strategic ideological mechanism for mobilising ordinary people against elite predation and ‘oligarchic overreach’ (Laclau 2010; Mouffe 2018; Vergara 2020).
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Jenkins, D. (2023). Seeing Populism in Seeing. In: Baltrusch, B., Salzani, C., Vanhoutte, K. (eds) A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy. iBroLiT – Estudos Iberorrománicos de Literatura e Tradutoloxía. Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology, vol 9. Frank & Timme, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-8985-0_5
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