This article takes up Chantal Mouffe’s recent interventions in support of left populism as a starting point for a … theoretical reflection on the tension between populism and radical democracy. In light of the radical democratic theories of … Claude Lefort, Jacques Rancière, Ernesto Laclau, and Chantal Mouffe, Laclau’s theory of populism as well as the relevant …

ideational and the post-foundational discursive approaches to populism: namely, that the former is moralistic and the latter is … populism. It is argued that ideational scholars’ attribution of a moralistic particularity to populism runs the risk of …-normativity can be seen in Laclau’s tendency to equate populism with the political and simultaneously emphasize its emancipatory …

democracy to Laclau’s theory of populism. The argument here is that the shift in conceptual terrain from the autonomy of … vertical politics of representation, for which radical democracy and populism respectively take on a paradigmatic character …

This paper draws on Laclau’s theory of discourse, hegemony, and populism to analyse competing forms of populism in the …