The ambivalence of populism: Threat and corrective for democracy

Democratization

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 184-208

  Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross regional research; Democracy; Europe; Latin america; Populism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859592906     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2011.572619     Document Type: Article

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