Clarifying a Contested Concept: Populism in the Study of Latin American Politics

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• A classification should identify who applied the label, which definition and evidence they used, and the person, organization, speech, period, or practice placed within its scope.

  • supports · pp. 1–14

• Researchers disagree whether populism is best treated as an ideology, discourse, political style, or strategy; these are rival analytical definitions rather than interchangeable names.

  • supports · pp. 1–4, competing domain and extension definitions

• Weyland defines populism as a strategy through which a personalistic leader seeks or exercises governmental power through direct, unmediated support from largely unorganized followers.

  • supports · pp. 12–14, political-strategy definition