@article{ref1,
title="Inventing "populism": notes for the genealogy of a paranoid concept",
journal="Genealogy (Basel)",
year="2022",
author="Palano, Damiano",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="e2-e2",
abstract="This article proposes a &quot;genealogical&quot; rereading of the concept of &quot;populism&quot;. Following the idea of &quot;genealogical&quot; analysis that was suggested by Michel Foucault, the aim is to show the &quot;political&quot; logic of the reinvention of the concept of &quot;populism&quot;, which was carried out between the 1950s and 1960s by the social sciences in the United States. First, this contribution reconstructs the history of the concept, identifying five different phases: (1) Russian populism of the late nineteenth century; (2) the Popular Party in the United States; (3) the Perón and Vargas regimes in Argentina and Brazil, respectively; (4) the reformulation carried out by the social sciences in the 1950s and 1960s; and (5) the subsequent extension of the concept to Western Europe. It is argued that the decisive turning point took place in the 1950s when the social sciences &quot;grouped&quot; the traits of heterogeneous movements into a single theoretical category.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2313-5778",
doi="10.3390/genealogy6010002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010002"
}