El populismo como concepto en América Latina y en Colombia
Populism as Concept in Latin America and Colombia
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to present populism as a concept in Latin America
and Colombia. Accordingly, explains the reasons of its conceptual stretching and
clarifies the historical significance in Latin America. It proposes an explanatory value,
not to increase its stretched uses, but to recognize their main topics of discussion, the
continuities and discontinuities around its contents. The article suggests universes
of observation that can be used as theoretical assumptions on future conceptual
constructions on populism. Finally, it’s argued that populism can be seen as an
analytical perspective to criticize priority political projects of a government program.
The reconstruction articulated has been used as a methodology, from the
studies by Hugo Zemelman (1987, 2000) and Enrique de la Garza Toledo (1988),
which indicate methodological criteria of knowledge construction, and not the
mechanical application of methods.
Keywords
Populism; Neo-populism; Hegemonic Discourse.
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Medellín, enero-junio de 2013: pp. 112-137