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Populist democracy or populist dictatorship?

In: Research Handbook on Populism

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  • Paul Lucardie

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Populist democracy can be regarded as one of four democratic paradigms - the other three being elitist, pluralist and participatory democracy. Each paradigm is embedded in a worldview with specific ideas about human nature, politics and society. According to the populist paradigm, political elites represent either ‘the people’ or particular (sinister) interests like financial or foreign capital or ethnic minorities. In a populist democracy the people can elect and recall leaders and correct their decisions through referenda or people’s initiatives. The question that this chapter aims to address is whether populist parties in power succeed in realizing populist democracy or in fact tend to establish a new type of dictatorship legitimated by populist discourse.

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  • Paul Lucardie, 2024. "Populist democracy or populist dictatorship?," Chapters, in: Yannis Stavrakakis & Giorgos Katsambekis (ed.), Research Handbook on Populism, chapter 31, pages 373-384, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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