Dinner Speech von Prof. Dr. Heiko Staroßom
as passive entities. Rather than choosing laws for themselves, these citizens are only mobilized for elections in which their only option is to select their representatives rather than taking a more direct [...] labour parties. [xviii] Most likely, populism is not a relic of an earlier developmental stage, but rather an enduring feature of the modern civic and political landscape. [xix] Attempts of a definition of [...] populism seeks to defend the interest and maximize the power of ordinary citizens, through reform rather than revolution. In the United States the term was applied to the program of the Populist Movement