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Populism and nationalism revisited: A comparative study of the Spanish and Portuguese New Left

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Manucci, L 

Abstract

jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pCurrent definitions of populism are insufficiently determinate. They fail to distinguish between populism and nationalism. We propose to remedy this problem by advancing a new definition of populism as the logic of democratic resentment. We apply this new definition to a comparison between Spain's Podemos and Portugal's Left Bloc (BE), which we classify as jats:italicsocial carriers</jats:italic> of populism. We make two contributions to the literature. First, our findings dispute existing characterisations of the Portuguese case, which fail to distinguish between populist and nationalist claim‐making. Second, our analysis undermines depictions of Podemos as the consummate populist party in Iberia: In 2015, the little studied BE was a stronger populist carrier than Podemos. The analytical framework underpinning this conclusion offers a more refined approach to populism than the alternatives and sets a higher standard for empirical replication.</jats:p>

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Keywords

Iberia, political parties, populism, resentment, social theory

Journal Title

Nations and Nationalism

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Journal ISSN

1354-5078
1469-8129

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Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Research Project “POPULUS – Rethinking Populism” (PDTC/SOC-SOC/28524/2017). Funded by: Foundation for Science and Technology, Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education.