Vox Populi Then and Now

Matt Clement

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74993-4_3

Vox Populi Then and Now

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Abstract

The term ‘populism’ is now widely and somewhat confusingly used when discussing various political tendencies that have surged into prominence in the wake of the global financial crash of 2007–2008. Rather like the concept of ‘radicalism’, populism as an idea is distorted by the tendency of much mainstream commentary to regard it as a largely negative phenomenon. This chapter looks at the historical roots of the term and argues that there are examples from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century America where populism has taken a ‘progressive’ form, that is, genuinely advocating for wider democracy as a counter to oligarchy and authoritarianism.

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Delmotte, F. and B. Gornicka, (eds.) Norbert Elias in Troubled Times Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the 21st Century
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	3
Pages	43-62
Number of pages	20
Edition	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74993-4_3
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

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10.1007/978-3-030-74993-4_3

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