ABSTRACT
The emergence of Podemos as well as other political groups together with the popular disillusionment with, and distrust of, mainstream politicians and political parties has placed the phenomenon of political populism firmly on the Spanish political and public agenda. The absence of a developed corpus of theoretical and empirical research leads to argue that caution exercised in assessing and classifying populism and populist communication in the Spanish context at the stage. The Spanish-language scholars or Hispanists publishing in English focuses on Latin American populist actors such as Hugo Chvez, the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in Mexico, and Albert Fujimori. Catalonia has seen the emergence of a number of new populist parties, such as the Citizens (Cs) party, Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SI), and Candidature of Popular Unity (CUP). The survey of political populism scholarship and knowledge in Spain, it should be noted that more systematic and comparative research of political populism carried out in the Latin American context.
