Aug 29, 2022
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Is Populism a Threat to Democracy?
Critical essay
Defining Democracy and its Crisis
Democracy is considered as a highly contested concept in the social sciences (Keane, 2009; Tilly, 2007). That happens because it is mainly perceived as a system of government depending on the will of the people, namely as a way of governing “of the people, by the people and for the people” (Lincoln, 1863), which is…
