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This chapter reviews the sociocultural approach to populism, its emergence and international diffusion, as well as new avenues of research. The sociocultural approach understands populism as a distinctive style of doing politics, of making appeals, and of establishing relations between citizens and representatives. This style is marked by a) a reva...
En 2014, un grupo de jóvenes diputados propuso reducir en un 50% la dieta parlamentaria. Con esta iniciativa se buscaba solucionar problemas de legitimidad derivados de los altos ingresos de los congresistas en un contexto de alta desigualdad. La literatura, generalmente, señala que la dieta parlamentaria es un requisito para la ampliación democrát...
Hugo Chávez is one of the most emblematic populist leaders of the 21st century, particularly in left-wing populism. Oddly, there has been little academic analysis of his populist rhetoric and remarkable political performative style, so effective with his public. This chapter conducts an inductive, evidence-based discursive (and ideational) analysis...
There is a burgeoning literature on how to deal with populism in advanced liberal democracies, which puts a strong emphasis on legalist and pluralist methods. There is also a new and expanding literature that looks at the consequences of coups d’état for democracies by employing large-N data sets. These two recent literatures, however, do not speak...
This chapter outlines one of the key Laclauian-influenced theories of populism that has been developed in recent years: the “performative-relational” approach to populism, whereby populism is understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a performative “political style”. This approach, developed by authors such as Ostiguy, Moffitt, and others, seek...
This chapter situates the post-Laclauian discursive-performative approach in the wider literature on populism, outlining its key tenets, theoretical assumptions and core influences, drawing on authorities in adjacent fields, and comparing it to the other central approaches to populism. It then outlines the key themes and structure of the volume.
This chapter outlines the main theoretical and empirical contributions of the book to the study of populism. It posits that when dealing with a concept as complex as populism, the question of what a concept “is” and how it is defined is inextricable from the question of what a concept “does” and how it is applied within a community of scholars. The...
Entrevue à Pierre Ostiguy sur le populisme, dans la revue Esprit, réalisée par Arthur Borriello et Anton Jager.
Cette contribution à une histoire intellectuelle du populisme replace le conflit au cœur du politique, décentre le regard en insistant sur les expériences latino-américaines, propose une mise en perspective historique et interroge la nature de la démocratie.
When it comes to party system evolution, political leadership and relation to the organizations of the popular sectors, parties in Argentina and Brazil display divergent paths. Unquestionably, in sharp contrast to the Andean cases, the political landscape there has not been recreated anew. In Brazil, the party that opposed neoliberalism, the Worker...
Populist forces are increasingly relevant, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the phenomenon. The main goal of this Handbook is to provide the state of the art of the scholarship on populism. The Handbook lays out not only the c...
Populist forces are increasingly relevant, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the phenomenon. The main goal of this Handbook is to provide the state of the art of the scholarship on populism. The Handbook lays out not only the c...
When it comes to party system evolution, political leadership and relation to the organizations of the popular sectors, parties in Argentina and Brazil display divergent paths. Unquestionably, in sharp contrast to the Andean cases, the political landscape there has not been recreated anew. In Brazil, the party that opposed neoliberalism, the Worker...
The paper bridges the fields of political theory and methodology. It focuses on a central concept of the discipline, democracy, and proposes a novel way of understanding concept formation and the problem of category boundaries, an essential issue in comparative analysis, through the work of George Lakoff in cognitive science. Four historical compet...
El kirchnerismo quisiera que la política argentina se simplificara en un conflicto entre la izquierda, nacional y popular, progresista, por un lado, y la derecha liberal y neoliberal por el otro. Pero esta mirada tiende a olvidarse de los sectores populares conservadores del interior, que están mucho más cómodos con un Urtubey (o Gioja o, por qué n...
The paper discusses populism conceptually and in terms of its appeals to the people, particularly from the angle of public performance and discursive appeal. Mobilization bypassing legal-institutionalized forms is embedded within populism’s political style itself. This style centrally involves the performed relationship to a particularistic form of...
Ejemplo de codificación del estilo político y uso en correlaciones politológicas.
Despite a tradition of street protest and disorder, the social discontent associated elsewhere with the �indignados� and their claims has been channeled, in Argentina, through the governmental discourse of Kirchnerism, contributing with this particular narrative of struggle to a relative social peace. In contrast, despite a low level of mobilizatio...
This paper introduces a crucial dimension for the spatial and comparative analysis of party systems, cleavages, and the conduct of political campaigns. It presents the concepts of “high” and “low” in politics, and the related high-low dimension. High and low are about ways of appealing, and thus relating, to people in sociologically differentiated...
This paper introduces an indispensable dimension for the spatial and comparative analysis of party systems, cleavages, and the conduct of political campaigns. It presents the concepts of "high" and "low" in politics and the high-low dimension, which concerns ways of appealing (and thus relating) to people in sociologically differentiated ways. Poli...
American politics. He studies party systems, populism, political appeals, and political identity, with empirical research on Peronism and anti-Peronism in Argentina, and Chavismo and anti-Chavismo in Venezuela. Ostiguy’s work develops a “spatial analysis ” of politics and party systems focusing on the appeals of parties and candidates (as well as t...
The configuration of the Chilean party system has changed significantly from before 1973 to the current post-transition period, leading to an unusually stable political arena. While Chile’s previous party system (1958-1973) before the collapse of democracy was characterized by a competitive dynamic between three ideological blocs along a particular...
Party systems, and the parties composing them, both express and channel differences in society. Using the Argentine party system and what can loosely be called the Peronist “party”1 as outcomes, this chapter enhances our understanding of two syncretic processes, triggered in part by the logic of political competition: first and foremost, the— polem...
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La transformation de la configuration du système de partis chilien d’une dynamique compétitive entre trois blocs idéologiques le long d’un éventail gauche-droite étendu (1958-1973) à une compétition inégale entre deux grands blocs sur un espace gauche-droite plus réduit depuis la fin des années 1980 assure la stabilité politique de l’arène p...
Peronist and non-Peronist left wings in the Argentine party system
The Argentine party system is made up of a dual political spectrum, Peronist and non-Peronist, in which each faction extends from the radical left to the far right, via the centre. There are therefore two types of left-wing in Argentina, one non-Peronist (familiar in Europe) and the...
Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina, 1976–1983MunckGerardoUniversity Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, pp. xxxiii, 334 - Volume 32 Issue 4 - Pierre Ostiguy
University Microfilms order no. 9923000. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Includes bibliographical references.
