Studying Populism at the Intersection of Political Science and Political History:The Case of the Boerenpartij in the Netherlands, 1950s-1970s

Populism has been one of the most used and theorised concepts in political scholarship for at least two decades. In political science, the conceptualisation of the term has amounted to an insightful, though somewhat repetitive debate between and within a variety of ‘schools’ that each postulate their own understanding of populism: as a (thin) political ideology, as a political logic or as a political style – to name but three predominant ones. By contrast, historians have only engaged with this pertinent debate to a limited extent. Rather than adopting an a priori conceptualisation or operatio... Mehr ...