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Only Another Adjective, or Finally a New Functional Post-Ideological Subtype? A Conceptual Analysis of Valence Populism Cover

Only Another Adjective, or Finally a New Functional Post-Ideological Subtype? A Conceptual Analysis of Valence Populism

By: Aleš Michal  
Open Access
|Feb 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2024-0023 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422
Language: English
Page range: 529 - 546
Published on: Feb 13, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

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