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The Responses of Populism to Dahl's Democratic Dilemmas

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AuthorCristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Date01 October 2014
Published date01 October 2014
DOI10.1111/1467-9248.12165
Subject MatterEditors' Choice
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The Responses of Populism to Dahl’s Democratic Dilemmas
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
In this article, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser explores two key ideas. Firstly, that populism is
not necessarily anti-democratic; and secondly, that we should answer the question of the
impact of populism on democracy empirically. While populism is widely regarded as a
democratic deformation, Rovira Kaltwasser argues that it points to some real pathologies
and absences in the practice of liberal democracy. Working with ideas drawn from Robert
Dahl, he shows that populism is a more complex and challenging phenomenon than is
often supposed. In the words of one reviewer, this is ‘the piece on populism that I have
been waiting to discover and read for a long time’.
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doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12165
POLITICAL STUDIES: 2014 VOL 62, 469
© 2014 The Author. Political Studies © 2014 Political Studies Association

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