“We the people”: interpretaciones actuales sobre el fenómeno del populismo

Abstract

Abstract

 Populism has become a political phenomenon of special interest due to the proliferation of organizations, leaders or movements that are ascribed to such an elusive political category. However, it has been uncritically assumed that it has been more closely linked to journalistic uses than to studies of various spheres of knowledge such as the discipline of history or political science. For this reason, this article aims to focus on the validation of the concept as an axis of analysis of historical political experiences. To this end, the numerous problems in conceptualizing the phenomenon will be highlighted first and the evolution of the successive attempts will be presented. After that, the three predominant interpretative frameworks will be presented, and finally the concluding observations will be laid out.

Keywords

 Populism, historiography, concepts, interpretations, political strategy