Carreira da Silva, FilipeSalgado, Susana2018-12-102018-12-102018Silva, F. C. da, Salgado, S. (2018). Why no populism in Portugal? In Lobo, M. C., Silva, F. C. da, Zúquete, J. P. (Eds.), Changing societies: legacies and challenges. Vol. 2. Citizenship in crisis, pp. 249-268. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais978-972-671-504-7http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35740Why study populism? Because populism, left and right, has been on the rise. Talk of populism is all around us: countless talk shows, columns, and op-eds have been devoted to it and everyone seems to have a strong opinion about its dangers. Yet, both outside and inside academia, what populism means remains elusive and how it works is poorly understood. Half a century of populist research has failed to reach a consensus about a minimal definition of populism. It has today several different meanings, an implicit normative duplicity, and its operationalization remains at the very least challenging.engPopulismbook part10.31447/ics9789726715047.10