populism

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

political scientist

university professor

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

innovator in the field of

authoritarian rule

democratization

policy diffusion

political science

social policy

is a political strategy through which a personalistic leader seeks or exercises government power based on direct, unmediated, uninstitutionalized support from large numbers of mostly unorganized followers.

a political strategy through which a personalistic leader seeks or exercises government power based on direct, unmediated, uninstitutionalized support from large numbers of mostly unorganized followers' (Weyland 2001: 14).

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