Panizza, Francisco 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3755-9209, Ostiguy, Pierre and Moffitt, Benjamin
(2020)
Conclusions: reflections on the lessons learned.
In: Ostiguy, Pierre, Panizza, Francisco and Moffitt, Benjamin, (eds.)
Populism in Global Perspective: A Performative and Discursive Approach.
Conceptualising Comparative Politics: Polities, Peoples, and Markets (13).
Routledge, 255 - 274.
ISBN 9780367559342
Abstract
This concluding chapter outlines the main theoretical and empirical contributions of the book to the study of populism. It posits that when dealing with a concept as complex as populism, the question of what a concept “is” and how it is defined is inextricable from the question of what a concept “does” and how it is applied within a community of scholars. The conclusion focuses on how the chapters engage and together contribute to advancing discussion of five questions at the very heart of the contemporary debate on populism: the relation of identification between the leader and the people; “the people” as a relational category; populism, anti-populism and antagonism; populism and institutions; and populism and democracy. Contributors to the volume have shown that the critically minded work that takes place under the broad rubric of post-Laclauian populism research is not “too abstract” for empirical analysis, but on the contrary can be particularly relevant in its application to real-life instances of populism. This volume, the authors express, has demonstrated the importance of placing a discursive-performative approach at the center of the study of populism.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Pierre Ostiguy, Francisco Panizza, and Benjamin Moffitt; individual chapters, the contributors |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2025 14:09 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2025 11:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129859 |
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