The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Populisms and Gender Equality

Zoe Lefkofridi

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9745

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Zoe Lefkofridi University of Salzburg http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-3979
Zoe Lefkofridi is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Her research interests lie in transnational democracy, political representation and inequality in Europe, and her work appears, inter alia, in the Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics, Politics and Gender, West European Politics and Oxford University Press.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9745

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Democratic Virtues, Populism, Party Organizations, Real-Existing Democracy, Social Movements

Abstract

A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)

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