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Why have populists succeeded so much in recent elections across the world? This article turns the spotlight onto one aspect of the behavior of populist leaders that has so far been largely ignored. In contemporary societies, the public and private spheres are typically kept distinct and apart. Populist leaders, however, behave in the public sphere as if they were in the private sphere: they say and do things that are normally only said and done in private. This unorthodox approach – especially pronounced among the more authoritarian populists – resonates strongly with those who feel like the public sphere has left them behind.
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This page is a summary of: The Great Breach: Populism and the Undermining of the Public Sphere with the Logic of the Private One, Populism, July 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/25888072-bja10063.
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