Are populist parties bad for representative democracy or are they filling a representative gap? While it has been … substantive representation, this article opens up the dimensions in which populist parties might challenge or aid democratic … representation. It then places the articles in the Special Issue ‘Populist Representation of, by and for the People?’ along these …

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by … populism as well. In this chapter, we ask whether elements of public deliberation may be a means to reasonably responding to …

This article investigates the rise of populism in Poland, applying an interdisciplinary method, with political, social …, and economic factors as the compound reason for the turn from liberalism towards populism. The methodology of the study is … transition disparities were the main reasons for populism's prevalence. The democratic backsliding has not changed party …