With the 2016 double shock of Brexit and Trump, populist right has become a game-changing force on both sides North Atlantic. A proper explanation needs to combine political, economic, cultural elements. Qua populism, addresses political condition, which is neoliberalism’s endemic democracy deficit. However, illiberal that populists advocate not cure for it. Cleavage theory in Lipset–Rokkan tra...

This article sets out to examine two claims that have increasingly come define the dividing lines between ideational and post-foundational discursive approaches populism: namely, former is moralistic latter normative in orientation. The considers conceptual merits of both critiques while using them further some implicit assumptions pitfalls within Cas Mudde’s Ernesto Laclau’s paradigmatic conce...

Abstract Polarization may be the most consistent effect of populism, as it is integral to logic constructing populist subjects. This article distinguishes between constitutive, spatial and institutional dimensions polarization, adopting a cross-regional comparative perspective on different subtypes populism in Europe, Latin America US. It explains why typically arises contexts low political pol...