Populism

"Populism has many different faces. Many different things can be called populism for very good reasons. We may not necessarily agree on the meaning of the term populism. And maybe the term populism should not necessarily have only one meaning. The usefulness of a term with different meanings resides in the fact that it may hint at family resemblances between different phenomena called populism. Therefore, in any project on populism, it might soon appear that the contributors – artists, academics, writers and other intellectuals – will use the word in many different ways."  (Lesage, 2005). 

Literature:

Lesage, D. (2005). Populism and Democracy. IN: : Eva May (Editorial Coordinator): The Populism Reader.  Berlin: Lukas&Sternberg.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Populism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

See also: Fashion in knowledge production

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 22-01-2006

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