The populism that was not: Rodrí­guez Saá and Duhalde administrations

Abstract

Laclau contributions provided of new theoretical tools for the study of populism. Several scholars have used those tools to build a better understanding of kirchnerism. This paper aims to complement that explanation by analyzing certain unattended features in a low explored period: that of Adolfo Rodrí­guez Saá and Eduardo Duhalde’s administrations. Those two presidents were not elected by people’s vote, and constitute an interregnum between two political orders. What happened in those months? The paper states that it was then when the public policies, the discourse and the shape of accumulation changed, leaving fertile ground for Néstor Kirchner’s populist interpellation