Butzlaff, Felix, Blühdorn, Ingolfur. 2018. Rethinking Populism: Peak democracy, liquid identity and the performance of sovereignty. European Journal of Social Theory. 1-21.

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@ARTICLE{Butzlaff2018,
title = {Rethinking Populism: Peak democracy, liquid identity and the performance of sovereignty},
author = {Felix Butzlaff and Ingolfur Blühdorn},
year = {2018},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431017754057},
url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431017754057},
language = {EN},
pages = {1-21},
journal = {European Journal of Social Theory},
abstract = {Despite the burgeoning literature on right-wing populism, there is still considerable uncertainty about its causes, its impact on liberal democracies and about promising counter-strategies. Inspired by recent suggestions that (1) the emancipatory left has made a significant contribution to the proliferation of the populist right; and (2) populist movements, rather than challenging the established socio-political order, in fact stabilize and further entrench its logic, this article argues that an adequate understanding of the populist phenomenon necessitates a radical shift of perspective: beyond the democratic and emancipatory norms, which still govern most of the relevant literature. Approaching its subject matter via democratic theory and modernization theory, it undertakes a reassessment of the triangular relationship between modernity, democracy and populism. It finds that the latter is not helpfully conceptualized as anti-modernist or anti-democratic but should, instead, be regarded as a predictable feature of the form of politics distinctive of today’s third modernity.},
}