Abstract

PALACIOS, Marco. Populism: Concept, jargon, insult in historical perspective. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2023, vol.85, n.spe2, pp.67-93.  Epub Sep 30, 2023. ISSN 2594-0651.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iis.01882503p.2023.2ne.60983.

This article briefly traces the trajectory of the concept of populism in the social sciences and its current use in public life. It submits that, despite theoretical efforts, populism is indefinable when it escapes the description of historical periods. Whatever the range of the definition, the experts who construct the concept are as committed as those who put it to positive or negative use in mainstream politics and in the electoral and advertising arenas.

Keywords : popular; national; liberalism; polysemy; Latin America; normality and anomaly.

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