Populism revisited: notes to unveil its analysis.

Abstract

This paper intended as a series of "notes Professor", intended to constitute a look at the phenomenon of populism. The goal is more like what the French call a pris of position: articulate a perspective to discuss it and explore it later. In this analysis, we understand populism as historical forms assumed the state and governance of a democratic type, was one of the possibilities that made their way in a particular context, with the help of a novel relationship between State and Society. The emergence of Latin American populism can be analyzed as the search for a solution to the crisis of hegemony lived in the thirties, linked to a specific context of peripheral capitalism (dependent) and a particular social structure transformation, urban growth and the emergence of the masses in the public arena. By "mass" refers to social groups excluded from effective political participation-elect and be elected. In this sense, there are objective conditions concerning the context of Latin America between 1920 and 1930 that explain the emergence and development of populism, these conditions generate a particular dynamic between social actors, defined from the relationship between the emergence of the "masses "in the political arena, their mobilization in search of a radical-and populist regime. The ambiguity of these populist particularly as intrinsic to its dynamic feature, helps to explain not only the origin and development but also the dismantling.