The Turkish election as a warning against the irresistible charms of populism Spyros A. Sofos 12 July 2018
RETHINKING POPULISM. At a time when new political actors are mounting electoral and occasionally systemic challenges to contemporary democracies in the name of the people, there is little consensus in what the phenomenon is among academics, political activists and citizens alike. openDemocracy has been featuring articles on populist phenomena for some years (Mudde, Rovira Kaltwasser, Mouffe, Marlière, Pappas, Skodo, Sofos, Stavrakakis and Katsambekis, Gerbaudo, Gandesha, Tamás to name but a few) and has been successful in stimulating a recurring interest. But despite or perhaps because of the extensive and interesting research on populism, the term has come to denote a range of widely diverse phenomena.
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