This article revisits the vexed relationship between populism and democracy. The article identifies and analyzes a persistent split in the discourse of democracy between the politically fit and unfit, and argues that populism is best seen as effecting a reversal of this ancient binary. Using analytical tools from the strong program in cultural sociology, this binary is theorized as a symbolic code organizing our sense of and sensibilities for the sacred and the profane in democracy, a symbolic code that political science research on populism tends to reproduce rather than explicate. Pursuing this, the article outlines a cultural explanation of populism as well as of shortcomings and blind spots in the latest wave of research on the subject. It argues by example the need to cross over between political, social, and cultural theory in order to better understand populism and democracy and their contentious interrelationship.

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被压迫者的回归：重新审视民粹主义和民主

这篇文章重新审视了民粹主义与民主之间令人烦恼的关系。这篇文章确定并分析了政治上适合与不适合的民主话语之间的持续分裂，并认为民粹主义最好被视为影响了这种古老的二元论的逆转。使用来自文化社会学强大程序的分析工具，这个二元被理论化为一种象征性的代码，组织我们对民主中神圣和亵渎的感觉和敏感性，这是一种象征性的代码，民粹主义的政治科学研究倾向于复制而不是解释。为此，文章概述了对民粹主义的文化解释，以及对该主题最新研究浪潮中的缺点和盲点。它举例论证了在政治、社会、