Populism and nationalism revisited: A comparative study of the Spanish and Portuguese New Left
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Publication Date
2022-07Journal Title
Nations and Nationalism
ISSN
1354-5078
Publisher
Wiley
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Article
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da Silva, F., Manucci, L., & Veloso Larraz, D. (2022). Populism and nationalism revisited: A comparative study of the Spanish and Portuguese New Left. Nations and Nationalism https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12817
Abstract
Current 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 social carriers 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.
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.
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2024-01-26
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12817
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331379
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