Studying Populism in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on the Contemporary and Future Research Agenda
Studying Populism in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on the Contemporary and Future Research Agenda
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DOI：
10.1177/0010414018789490
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发表时间：
2018-11-01
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5
通讯作者：
Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristobal
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作者：
Mudde, Cas;Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristobal
学者们越来越多地使用民粹主义的概念来理解英国脱欧公投和特朗普总统任期等时事。这当然是一个值得欢迎的事态发展，但在当前的辩论中可以看到两个缺点。一方面，新民粹主义学者往往从零开始，没有建立在现有的研究基础上。另一方面，那些一直在做民粹主义比较研究的人停留在他们的舒适区，因此不试图将他们的工作与其他学术领域联系起来。在这篇文章中，我们通过讨论所谓的概念方法对民粹主义的比较研究的一些优点，并指出未来研究的四个途径，即（a）经济焦虑，（B）文化反弹，（c）反应和责任之间的紧张关系，（d）（消极的）党派偏见和两极分化。
Academics are increasingly using the concept of populism to make sense of current events such as the Brexit referendum and the Trump presidency. This is certainly a welcome development, but two shortcomings can be observed in the contemporary debate. On one hand, new populism scholars often start from scratch and do not build upon the existing research. On the other hand, those who have been doing comparative research on populism stay in their comfort zone and thus do not try to link their work to other academic fields. In this article, we address these two shortcomings by discussing some of the advantages of the so-called ideational approach to the comparative study of populism and by pointing out four avenues of future research, which are closely related to some of the contributions of this special issue, namely, (a) economic anxiety, (b) cultural backlash, (c) the tension between responsiveness and responsibility, and (d) (negative) partisanship and polarization.