The populist political logic and the analysis of the discursive construction of ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’ Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Aiming to provide some theoretical context to this edited volume on Imagining
the Peoples of Europe, this chapter argues that a discourse-theoretical definition
of populism as a political logic is the best basis for discursive analyses of populist
politics. In identifying what makes populist politics across the political spectrum
populist, the chapter strongly builds on Laclau’s work. But it more explicitly
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the Peoples of Europe, this chapter argues that a discourse-theoretical definition
of populism as a political logic is the best basis for discursive analyses of populist
politics. In identifying what makes populist politics across the political spectrum
populist, the chapter strongly builds on Laclau’s work. But it more explicitly
...