L’invenzione del populismo. Note per la genealogia di un concetto ‘paranoico’

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Abstract

This article argues that the concept of «populism» is the result of a «re-invention» accomplished by social sciences. First, the paper reconstructs the history of the concept, identifying five different stages: a) the Russian populism of the late nineteenth century; b) the People's Party in the United States; c) the Perón and Vargas regimes in Argentina and Brazil; d) the reformulation carried out by social sciences in the Fifties and Sixties; e) the subsequent extension of the concept to Western Europe. According to the article, the crucial turning point took place in the 1950s, when, due to the shock caused by the «witch hunt», social sciences «assembled» in a single theoretical category the traits of heterogeneous movements. In particular, the concept was the subject of two processes of «expansion»: first, the populism of the People's Party became a specific tradition of American political culture; secondly, the concept expanded geographically, because it coincided with a form of political extremism, characterized by anti-intellectualism, conspiracy obsessions, intolerance towards foreigners and elites.
Titolo tradotto del contributo[Autom. eng. transl.] The invention of populism. Notes for the genealogy of a 'paranoid' concept
Lingua originaleItalian
pagine (da-a)273-295
Numero di pagine26
RivistaStoria del Pensiero Politico
Volume8
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2019

Keywords

  • People
  • Popolo
  • Populism
  • Populismo

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