Terminologies on Populism

To help journalists, policymakers, and anyone interested in seeing through populism and its consequences, our DEMOS scholars from the Centre for Social Sciences Márton Bene, Gabriella Szabó, Zoltán Szente, and Fruzsina Gardos-Orosz provided a list of key concepts surrounding the populist phenomenon—a list which will keep growing. Check out our first entries below:

The Populist Rhetoric and Media Populism

• Populist rhetoric
• Populism by the media
• Populism through the media
• Bad manners in populism

​Populism and the Law

• Populist constitutionalism
• Populist Legalism
• Abusive constitutionalism
• Judicial populism

​Populism and Democracy

• Political efficacy
• External political efficacy
• Internal political efficacy
• Democratic efficacy