The central thesis of this study is that systematic use of the term populism is a post-war phenomenon which develops in exact proportion to the disuse of the term ‘the people’: the more peripheral the people in political discourse, the more central populism becomes.
kinda interesting. he does provide evidence for this, though i'm skeptical cus the underlying trend is (obviously) for more papers to be published every decade, and i'm not certain that he takes that into consideration