TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wolkenstein, Fabio
T1  - Populism, liberal democracy and the ethics of peoplehood
T2  - European journal of political theory
N2  - Populism is widely thought to be in tension with liberal democracy. This article clarifies what exactly is problematic about populism from a liberal–democratic point of view and goes on to develop normative standards that allow us to distinguish between more and less legitimate forms of populism. The point of this exercise is not to dismiss populism in toto; the article strives for a more subtle result, namely, to show that liberal democracy can accommodate populism provided that the latter conforms to particular discursive norms. What the article calls a ‘liberal ethics of populism’ turns out to be closely bound up with a broader ethics of peoplehood, understood as a way of articulating who ‘the people’ are in a way that is compatible with liberal–democratic principles of political justification. Such an ethics, concludes the article, inevitably has a much wider audience than populist political actors: its addressees are all those who seek legitimately to exercise power in the name of the people.
KW  - populism
KW  - the people
KW  - liberal democracy
KW  - justification
KW  - partisanship
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53253
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-532534
SN  - 1741-2730
SN  - 1474-8851
VL  - 18
IS  - 19
SP  - 330
EP  - 348
PB  - Sage
ER  -