Populist conservatism or conservative populism? The Republican Party, the New Conservative Revolution and the political education of Donald Trump
Populist conservatism or conservative populism? The Republican Party, the New Conservative Revolution and the political education of Donald Trump

Summary/Abstract: The American experience with populism – both empirical and theoretical – is very dissimilar to the European or even Latin American ones.The partisan framework of the nascent American democracy, its staunchly liberal intellectual foundations, but also the inbuilt racial and social tensions at the heart of the system, shaped along the 19th and 20th century a peculiar understanding of the main political categories of polity, politics and policy. These elastic labels make a pertinent international analysis of the content of the populist – or for that matter of the conservative label a difficult and challenging endeavor.

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