Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics
Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics
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民粹主义与代议制政治的病理学
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2002
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P. Taggart
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P. Taggart
对民粹主义的研究，就像这种现象本身一样，在范围和持续时间上都是有限的，而且有点断断续续。民粹主义似乎在不定期地获得某种知识货币，但缺乏持久力。因此，民粹主义是我们这个时代使用最广泛但理解最少的政治概念之一。这是一个缺陷，因为正如我将要论证的那样，它为我们理解代议制政治的病理提供了一个有用的工具。民粹主义并不是一个普遍的概念，一旦被解开，它将使我们能够解读所有其他政治辩论，但它是一个有用的次要概念，如果敏感而系统地使用，它将使我们能够理解民粹主义运动，也许更重要的是，它将使我们能够理解代表政治中的基本要素。
The study of populism is, like the phenomenon itself, limited in scope and duration, and somewhat episodic. It seems that populism acquires a certain intellectual currency at irregular intervals but lacks staying power. In consequence, populism is one of the most widely used but poorly understood political concepts of our time. This is a deficiency because, as I shall argue, it provides us with a useful tool for understanding the pathology of representative politics. Populism is not a universal concept that, once unlocked, will enable us to decipher all other political debates, but it is a useful secondary concept that, if used sensitively and systematically, will enable us to understand populist movements, and which will, perhaps more importantly, allow us to understand essential elements in the politics of representation.