[PAR] [TLE] Populism [SEP] Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between the "common man" or "the people" and a real or imagined group of "privileged elites", traditionally scapegoating or making a folk devil of the latter.  Populists can fall anywhere on the traditional left–right political spectrum of politics, and can often be characterised as centrist where populists portray both bourgeois capitalists and socialist organizers as unfairly dominating the political sphere. [PAR] [TLE] Jens Rydgren [SEP] Jens Rydgren (born 1969) is a Swedish writer, political commentator and a professor of sociology, at Stockholm University.  Specialising in research of political sociology, for many years he has studied populist right-wing parties.  In 2002 he defended his thesis "Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization: The Case of the French National Front" in a debate with Sidney Tarrow of Cornell University.  He has appeared as an expert on right wing populist parties, including the Sweden Democrats, in various news media.
[PAR] [TLE] Populism [ SEP ] Populism is a mode of political communication that is based on contrasts between the " common man " or " the people " and a real or imagined group of " privileged elites " , traditionally scapegoating or making a folk devil of the latter . Populists can fall anywhere on the traditional left – right political spectrum of politics , and can often be characterised as centrist where populists portray both bourgeois capitalists and socialist organizers as unfairly dominating the political sphere . [PAR] [TLE] Jens Rydgren [ SEP ] Jens Rydgren ( born 1969 ) is a Swedish writer , political commentator and a professor of sociology , at Stockholm University . Specialising in research of political sociology , for many years he has studied populist right - wing parties . In 2002 he defended his thesis " Political Protest and Ethno - Nationalist Mobilization : The Case of the French National Front " in a debate with Sidney Tarrow of Cornell University . He has appeared as an expert on right wing populist parties , including the Sweden Democrats , in various news media .
Where on the traditional left-right political spectrum of politics scale does Jens Rygren's specialty fall?
Where on the traditional left - right political spectrum of politics scale does Jens Rygren 's specialty fall ?
centrist
centrist