Re: How Brazil and South Africa became the world's most populist countries Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on May 1, 2019, 9:31 pm, in reply to "Re: How Brazil and South Africa became the world's most populist countries"
Yes it was all a bit vague and whatever suits at the time. The linked article contains this: "The Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde defines populism as a thin-centred ideology that separates society into two antagonistic groups – “the pure people” versus “the corrupt elite” – and that insists politics should be an expression of the general will of the people. Working with academic advisers, the Guardian used this definition, which is widely used in political science, to identify a cohort of survey respondents with strong populist views. This populist cohort included all the respondents who answered “strongly agree” to both of the following statements: My country is divided between ordinary people and the corrupt elites who exploit them. The will of the people should be the highest principle in this country’s politics." These seem like barnum statements to me which if you squint could be applied to socialist viewpoints as easily as ukip-type parties, and so are meaningless. https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2019/may/01/populism-what-is-yougov-cambridge-globalism-project-methodology
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