Abstract

BUENO ROMERO, Gildardo Antonio. Populism as Concept in Latin America and Colombia. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2013, n.42, pp.112-137. ISSN 0121-5167.

The purpose of this article is to present populism as a concept in Latin America and Colombia. Accordingly, explains the reasons of its conceptual stretching and clarifies the historical significance in Latin America. It proposes an explanatory value, not to increase its stretched uses, but to recognize their main topics of discussion, the continuities and discontinuities around its contents. The article suggests universes of observation that can be used as theoretical assumptions on future conceptual constructions on populism. Finally, it's argued that populism can be seen as an analytical perspective to criticize priority political projects of a government program. The reconstruction articulated has been used as a methodology, from the studies by Hugo Zemelman (1987, 2000) and Enrique de la Garza Toledo (1988), which indicate methodological criteria of knowledge construction, and not the mechanical application of methods.

Keywords : Populism; Neo-populism; Hegemonic Discourse.

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