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• 1 Introduction: A new form of representative goverment

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• How do scholars today perceive populism?

  A legitimate call for power by the ordinary many.

• What is critical about the term populism?

  It is used to stigmatize political movements.

• What does Nadia Urbinati propose about populism?

  Abandon the polemical attitude, treat it as a project of government. A transformation of three pillars of democracy: the people, the principle of majority, representation.

• 1.1 How populism transforms representative democracy

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• Which problems does populism try to solve?

  1) The resistance of democratic citizens to political intermediation 2) The majority's mistrust of the institutional checks on power. 3) The climate with distress with pluralism.

• On which two phenomena is populism based?

  1) Direct relation between leader and society (good and bad) 2) Superlative authority of the audience.

• What is the aim of populists?

  To replace party democracy with populist democracy. They seek to occupy the space of the constituent power.

• What are reasons that populists are so successful?

  1) Party democracy has failed to deliver. 2) The growth of social and economic inequality. 3) The growth of a rampant and rapacious global oligarchy which reduces sovereignty.

• Populism is ambiguous and hard to define. What is it, rather than an ideology?

  It is a representative process through which a collective subject is constructed so that it can achieve power.

• How does Oxford English Dictionary describe populism?

  A type of politics that seeks to represent the interests and wishes of ordinary people "who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups".

• What divide makes Margaret Conavan in populism?

  A divide between economically backward societies (Caesaristic leaders) and populism in modern Western societies (exist even without a leader).