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

Authors

  • Zoe Lefkofridi University of Salzburg http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5696-3979

DOI:

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

Keywords:

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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2019-08-28

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Lefkofridi, Z. (2019). The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Populisms and Gender Equality. Sociologica, 13(2), 11–18. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9745

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