O que o populismo tem? Um conceito sistematizado

Abstract

What has been published about populism in Brazil? More specifically, our analysis is about publications in Brazilian academic journals indexed in the Scielo repository. Our overall objective is to produce a systematic literature review on the topic of populism. A systematic review is an analysis of the analyses, that is, joining different studies on the same topic and arriving at results and findings, without carrying out primary research. We made use of Technically, we systematized an unprecedented database on this topic, containing information from 55 scientific articles (our sample). Methodologically, we used descriptive statistics for data analysis and comparisons. Preliminary results indicate that (1) studies on populism published in Brazil began in 2000; (2) 54.5% of scientific production on populism is the product of empirical research; and (3) the concept of populism is related tends to be related to the concepts of according to Mudde (2004; 2017) and Laclau (1977; 2005).