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A conceptual analysis of the term ‘populism’

María Pía Lara
- 14 Dec 2018 - 
- Vol. 149, Iss: 1, pp 31-47
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In this article, the authors focus on the conceptual battles of politics and their consequences, and leave behind the failed attempts to think about populism as ideology, strategy, style, or even discourse.
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In this paper I want to leave behind the failed attempts to think about populism as ideology, strategy, style, or even discourse. I will focus on the ‘conceptual battles of politics’ and their pote...

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The force of example

Hibernicus
- 11 Mar 1944 - 
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Thetorment of secrecy : the background and consequences of American security policies

TL;DR: One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism is as discussed by the authors, an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the Cold War preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, and the agitation so wildly directed against the "enemy."
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The Origins of Totalitarianism

TL;DR: The putrefaction of Western civilization, as it were, has released a cadaveric poison spreading its infection through the body of humanity as discussed by the authors, which has become an intimate part of their spiritual, intellectual, economic, and physical existence.
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On Populist Reason

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critical reading of the existing literature on populism, demonstrating its dependency on the basic categories elaborated by theorists of "mass psychology", from Taine and Le Bon to Tarde, McDougall and Freud.
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Wendy Brown
TL;DR: In Undoing the Demos, the authors, the authors trace the devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures, and explain how democracy itself is imperiled.