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Notes
1. In the recent explosion of literature on the subject, populism is a contested term, though one of the key areas of agreement is that populism always includes notions of ‘elites’ versus ‘the people’.
2. Of course, populism’s relationship to the left is fraught. See Jäger (Citation2018c) for an interesting discussion about this.
3. For a brief outline of the changing terminology attached to populism, see the introduction to Mudde (Citation2019).
4. Special thanks to Tai Neilson for bringing this footnote in Assembly to our attention.
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David Zeglen
David Zeglen is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies programme at George Mason University. He has published a chapter on North Korea’s only celebrity couple in the edited collection First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics (2015, Bloomsbury), and has an article on Kim Jong-un as celebrity dictator in Celebrity Studies (2017).
Neil Ewen
Neil Ewen is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Media and Communication at the University of Winchester. He is the co-editor of First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics (2015) and Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century (forthcoming). He is Cultural Report section editor of Celebrity Studies journal.