The Five Agents of the New Populism

This is a study of the five actors in populism: the populist mass, the populist leader, the wealthy populist supporters, the opportunistic political parties and other cultural and social leaders, and the rejected elite or the neo-liberal democratic political leaders. I argue that the last group must learn to recognize the first group.

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3. College of Business Innovation, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA Paul Hong

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Keenan S.J., J.F. (2023). The Five Agents of the New Populism. In: Chacko Chennattuserry, J., Deshpande, M., Hong, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9859-0_275-1

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