Populism, Ancient and Modern

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Populism, Ancient and Modern
Rethinking the Political Culture of the Late Roman Republic
Mouritsen, Henrik

Aus der Zeitschrift Historia Historia, Band 72, Juni 2023, Heft 3

veröffentlicht von Franz Steiner Verlag

Beitrag, 16826 Worte
Orginalsprache: Englisch
Historia 2023, S. 313-342
https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2023-0013

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The paper explores the link between populism and political instability in the late Roman republic using key insights gained from studies of contemporary politics to enhance our understanding of its political culture. The aim is to refine our approach by adding a new theoretically informed dimension, inspired by the works of modern political scientists, above all those of Jan-Werner Müller, who has emphasised anti-pluralism as a key characteristic of populism. Applying this approach, republican Rome emerges as a profoundly populist and antagonistic political culture, with a public discourse dominated by populist tropes and exclusionary claims to represent the ‘people’. The populist mode of engagement was closely linked to the absence of parties and the personalisation of the political field which that entailed. In practice, the ‘universal populism’ of republican Rome expressed itself in an all-pervasive concern with popularity, claims to which provided a vital means of asserting political legitimacy.

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Henrik Mouritsen 

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modern political theory | populism | popularity | legitimacy | popularis

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