Populist Rationality versus Representative Democracy

Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel

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Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel School of Government, Adolfo Ibáñez University

Keywords:

POPULISM, LIBERALISM, LACLAU, MOUFFE, DEMOCRACY

Abstract

Populism has been commonly considered opposed to liberalism, as a contrary phenomenon to institutionalism and democracy. This pejorative view of populism is redefined by Laclau and Mouffe, who argue that the participation of the people in this type of political systems is what ensures its democratic value, despite the fact that such participation is not done by conventional means. In this paper the principles upon which liberal democracy and populism are based, are presented briefly, in order to observe the criticisms Laclau and Mouffe made on both systems, studying its feasibility and the scope of their proposals.

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Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel, School of Government, Adolfo Ibáñez University

Doctor en Cultura de la Economía(Universidad Erasmo de Rotterdam, Holanda); Profesor e investigador (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago, Chile); Investigador visitante del Institut für Socialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (Alemania); Profesor asociado de la Escuela de Gobierno dela Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).

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