On Populism, Planets, and Why Concepts Should Precede Definitions and Theory-Seeking

Despite its remarkable growth in recent years, the study of null has long suffered from the lack of a comprehensive theory about its causes, development, and outcomes. Yet, no such theory can be arrived at before previously having resolved what populism really is (and what it is null not ). Good definitions, therefore, require a prior conceptualization of the phenomena we classify as populist, and want explained. Like planets, which are hard to...