El desarrollo teórico del populismo. Hacia una sistematización de lo escrito sobre el populismo como fenómeno político.

Abstract

Populism was approached in different ways and forms, it was associated with the extreme right in Europe and with the left in Latin America, it was said that they were protectionist in the economic field and nationalist in the political field, that they emerged and took power in countries whose democratic institutions were weak and that they took advantage of economic, political and/or social crises to take over democracy and once there to attack it by proposing and carrying out changes that undermined the rule of law. However, the arrival of Trump to the presidency of the United States and Johnson as British premier forced a rethinking of the theoretical and political beliefs of the phenomenon in question. This research article focus with a qualitative methodology on the literature says about the populist phenomenon according to some criteria of selection and systematization of theoretical information.