Populism in Spain: Concepts, Trajectories, and Political Effects
Marina Rozalén and Aida Massó
Populism has become one of the major challenges facing contemporary Western democracies, reshaping political competition, public discourse, and citizen engagement (Kriesi et al., 2008; Müller, 2014). Rather than a single ideology, it is best approached as a flexible phenomenon combining ideological content, political strategy, and communicative style. Ideologically, populism constructs politics as a moral struggle between two antagonistic camps “the people” and “the elite” and asserts that...