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。本文的研究内容如下：1）分析民粹主义的概念。本研究将“民粹主义”定义为政党或政治人物直接呼吁民众动员其政治支持的一种策略。2）分析政党或政治人物采取民粹主义策略的情境。本研究选取日本、韩国、俄罗斯和我国台湾地区为样本，分析了政党或政治家采取策略的具体政治过程。3）分析政党或政治家采取策略的原因。研究发现，政治信任度的下降，尤其是政党和议会的信任度下降，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，在政治信任度下降的背后，存在着全球化和冷战结束的影响。本研究具有重要的政治学学术意义，它对当今的“民粹主义”现象有着全面的认识。

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.