What we talk about when we talk about 'the elite' in populism studies: re-examining an often-neglected term in the cases of Die Linke and AfD.
Populism studies have almost exclusively focused on understanding the phenomenon of populism based on how 'the people' are constructed as a political subject. Indeed, most of the relevant literature revolves around the different connotations that 'the people' have and under which conditions 'the peo...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 373 - 390 |
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