Research of Populism as a Global Phenomenon

本研究旨在分析当今世界的民粹主义现象。本研究的内容如下：1)民粹主义概念分析。本研究将“民粹主义”定义为政党或政治家直接呼吁人民动员其政治支持的一种策略。2)分析政党或政治家采取民粹主义策略的情况。本研究以日本、韩国、俄罗斯和台湾为样本，分析了政党或政治家采取策略的详细政治过程。3)分析政党或政治家采取战略的原因。这项研究发现，对政治的信心下降，尤其是对政党和议会的信心下降，导致政党或政治家严重依赖政治领导人的个人声望。本研究还发现，政治信心下降背后有全球化和冷战结束的影响。本研究对当今的“民粹主义”现象有全面的认识，在政治学上具有重要的学术意义。

This study intends to analyze populism phenomenon in today's world. Contents of this study are as follows;1) Analyzing the concept of populism. This study defined 'populism' as a kind of strategies of political parties or politicians appealing the peoples directly to mobilize their political support2) Analyzing circumstances where political parties or politicians to adopt the populism strategies. This study picked up Japan, South Korea, Russian and Taiwan as the samples and analyzed the detailed political process for the political parties or politicians to adopt the strategies.3) Analyzing reasons why political parties or politicians to adopt the strategies. This study found that decline of confidences in politics, especially them in political parties and parliaments, head the political parties or politician to heavily rely on personal popularities of political leaders. This study also found that there were effects of globalization and the end of cold war behind the declines of confidences in politicsThis study has great academic meaning in political sciences in the meaning that it gave overall understanding of today's 'populism' phenomenon.