Populism as Rhetoric: The Case of the Dominican Republic.

The article focuses on populism and politics. The main reason for the difficulty in defining populism in Spanish America is that the term describes the general political life of the region, not a particular ideology or movement. In the opinion of the author populism as a cultural system, specificall...

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Publicado en:Boundary 2 Vol. 11; no. 1/2; pp. 253 - 271
Autor principal: Sommer, Doris
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Publicado: Duke University Press Fall82/Winter83
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