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  • While populism is largely viewed as either a threat to or a corrective of democracy, we know less about its actual impact on the ideals of representative democracy. Adapting Powell's theoretical framework of elections as instruments of democracy, this chapter asks whether populism function as an instrument of democracy. Namely, it tests whether populism fuels ideological congruence between the electorate and the elected. The analyses in this chapter constitute the broadest test of the relationship between populism and congruence to date, drawing on a large sample of cases that overlap the Global Populist Database Dataset and Modules 1–5 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Results suggest that populist governments do not enhance elite-mass ideological congruence. Such evidence flies in the face of our expectation, derived from the intersection of ideational populism and public opinion formation, that populist leaders and governments would tighten elite-mass ideological congruence by moving a highly receptive public in line with populism's host ideologies. Thus, at least in ideological terms of Powell's framework, populism does not serve as a strong instrument for representative democracy. The global populist Zeitgeist may, therefore, wind up being a Poltergeist for core ideals of representative democracy. (xsd:string)
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  • In The Ideational Approach to Populism, Volume II, edited by Chryssogelos, Angelos and Hawkins, Eliza Tanner and Hawkins, Kirk A. and Littvay, Levente and Wiesehomeier, Nina, 140-160, Taylor & Francis, 2024 (xsd:string)
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