Populism and Neo-populism in Latin America, especially Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3236512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Knight (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-248 |
| Publication date | 1998-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022216x98005033 |
| OpenAlex | W2117514579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 145 |
In all matters of importance, style and not content is the important thing': Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest.Populism is a concept which, despite repeated critiques, refuses to disappear from Latin American studies. This article reviews some of the literature, suggesting that populism is best defined in terms of a particular political style, characteristically involving a proclaimed rapport with 'the people', a 'them-and-us' mentality, and (often, though not necessarily) a period of crisis and mobilisation; none of which makes it exceptional, abnormal, 'unmediated' or irrational. Mexican - among other - examples are invoked. The article questions some received opinions: that populism is typically urban, relates to particular historical stages of development, or distinctively derives from either multi-class alliances or elite manipulation. It also queries the fashionable notion of 'economic populism'. Finally, the article notes the recent phenomenon of 'neo-populism', embodied by Salinas, Menem, Fujimori, etc., which a suitably loose ('stylistic') definition can usefully accommodate, thus suggesting the continued, if limited, utility of the concept
Democracy · Elite · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Irrational number · Latin Americans · Oligarchy · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · History · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
América Latina tras bambalinas
On Populism and Democracy
Migration and Politics in South Africa Mainstreaming Anti-immigrant Populist Practice
The Rise and Fall of Narcopopulism
The World Adrift Between Orders
Latin American Populism
La estrategia populista
Políticas de reconhecimento
Self-Saboteur
A clash of paradigms
Neopopulismo en Colombia
Populism, or, politics at the edges of democracy
Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics
Presidentes outsiders y ministros neófitos
Neo-Populism in Comparative Perspective
Lessons from Latin America
A Typology of Populisms and Changing Forms of Society
Populism and Democracy in Latin America
Latin American Media & The State
Aliados o enemigos? Los intelectuales en los gobiernos de Vargas y Perón
El populismo, entre religión y política. Sobre las raíces históricas del antiliberalismo
Por qué los populismos latinoamericanos se niegan a desaparecer
Student Movements and User Fees
El populismo como experimento político
Post-democracia en Europa y América Latina
Post-democracia en Europa y América Latina
Porque te quiero te apoyo
Public sphere in Latin America
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
“Palabras malditas”
Son necesarias las dictaduras? Sindicatos y populismo neoliberal en cuatro países de América Latina
Antifascismo
Populism and the Idea of The People
Populism
Populism and (Pop) Music
Populist Leaders and the Economy
Populist Mobilization
Media anti-populism and political parallelism in Latin America
Radical Right Populism and the Politics of Cruelty
Teoria Política Do Populismo
El Desarrollo Teórico Del Populismo. Hacia Una Sistematización De Lo Escrito Sobre El Populismo Como Fenómeno Político
Prisutnost populizma na hrvatskim dnevnoinformativnim portalima
Populismo en América Latina
Pregoneros de la doctrina. Prácticas de identificación y sentidos de la acción entre los alumnos provincianos de la Escuela Superior Peronista (1952-1955)
Populismo e Autoritarismo – Uma breve reflexão teórica
Shifting perspectives
It's not the what but (also) the how”
A safety net against populism? An investigation of the interaction effect of political efficacy and democratic capacities on populist attitudes
Populism, is it Democracy’s Bastard or Twin? The Case of the European Union
When Populist Leaders Govern
How to Sustain National Security”
A historiography of populism and neopopulism in Latin America
The Experience of Children in Perón's Argentina
The making of the ‘new’ patriarch in women’s self-narrations of political empowerment
Straddling the divide
Exploring the foreign policies of populist governments
Get off your high horse and vote for us’
Populism and crisis
The “Big Bang” of the populist parties in the European Union
Combating populist memes with administrative pragmatism
The populist voter trap
The Justice and Development Party in Turkey
Rethinking Populism
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
From Colony to Nation
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela
Democratic and Revolutionary Traditions in Latin America
Is There an Ideological Link Between Neopopulism and Neoliberalism
Carlos Lacerda
In the Shadow of the State
Populist Reform Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Populist Mobilization
How to Perform Crisis
Populist strategy in the European parliament
An uneven wave
Reconfiguring the Countryside
"We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government"
“We Are Against the Government, Although We Are the Government”
Neopopulismo, poder y control social
Populismo
Episodic populist backlashes against urban climate actions
Export-Oriented Populism
Economic correlates of populist attitudes
(MIS)Perceptions of populism
Food, Race and Working-Class Identity
Assemblages of exclusion
Populism or Nationalism? The ‘Paradoxical’ Non-Emergence of Populism in Cyprus
Recovering Political Dynamics
The ambiguity of Europe and European identity in Finnish populist political discourse
Populism and the scales of statehood. Localism and populist attitudes in Western Europe
Neoliberalism as We Know it, but not in Conditions of its Own Choosing
Carlos Saúl Menem
How the populist radical right exploits crisis
Democracy, populism, and the rule of law
Populism and nationalism
Populism in Latin America
Conditions of military contestation in populist Latin America
The ambivalence of populism
Resistance to populism
Populism, anti-populism and crisis
| Unique citing works | 145 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,37 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 113 |