• DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1982.tb00559.x
Corpus ID: 143711735

Two Strategies for the Study of Populism

@article{Canovan1982TwoSF,
  title={Two Strategies for the Study of Populism},
  author={M. Canovan},
  journal={Political Studies},
  year={1982},
  volume={30},
  pages={544 - 552}
}

• M. Canovan
• Published 1982
• Sociology
• Political Studies

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The reason why ‘populism’ has remained such a confused notion is that two different strategies can be adopted in trying to clarify it, and the more intuitively appealing of the two does not work. Attempts at a theory of populism invariably fail because they are either too wide-ranging to be clear or too restricted to be persuasive. The alternative is a phenomenological approach, leading to the construction of a descriptive typology.