Populism and the politics of the extraordinary in Latin America
Populism and the politics of the extraordinary in Latin America
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拉丁美洲的民粹主义和非凡政治
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2016
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C. D. Torre
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本文基于拉丁美洲民粹主义的过去和现在的经验，提出四个论点。首先，民粹主义运动寻求权力，通过挑战排他性机构的合法性来实现社会民主化，而民粹主义政府往往以破坏民主为代价来接纳被排斥者。第二，在民粹主义事件中，“人民”这一模糊术语的含义存在争议。当社会运动薄弱，自由民主制度名誉扫地时，民粹主义领导人可能试图成为人民意志的化身。第三，尽管人民的概念是民粹主义的核心，但它可以以不同的方式构建。它可以被想象为异质和多元的，或者作为人民作为一个整体，作为一个实体，共享一个身份和利益，可以体现在一个领导人。第四，民粹主义和法西斯主义都有一个想象中的人民一体的结构。但与法西斯主义不同的是，它上演了非凡的...
AbstractBuilding on past and current experiences of populism in Latin America, this article makes four arguments. First, whereas populist movements seeking power promise to democratize society by challenging the legitimacy of exclusionary institutions, populist governments often include the excluded at the cost of disfiguring democracy. Second, during populist events the meanings of the ambiguous term ‘the people’ are disputed. When social movements are weak, and when the institutions of liberal democracy are discredited, a populist leader could attempt to become the embodiment of the will of the people. Third, even though the concept of the people is central to populism, it could be constructed differently. It could be imagined as heterogeneous and plural, or as the people-as-one, as an entity that shares one identity and interest that could be embodied in a leader. Fourth, populism shares with fascism an imaginary construction of the people-as-one. Yet differently from fascism, which staged extraordinar...