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You cannot be a political science journal editor these days without being inundated with manuscripts on populism. A high percentage of these start with the lament that despite its widespread use, there is no consensus over what populism is, that it is conceptually imprecise, and difficult to define. What usually follows is a discussion of several different influential conceptual works. This often begins with Laclau’s notion of populism as a countermovement to the failure of democratic representation under neo-liberal capitalism (Reference Laclau2005). After dancing around Laclau’s arguments about populism, popular sovereignty, and what constitutes democracy, most writers, ultimately, get around to Mudde’s widely cited definition and often adopt a version of it:
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