David Payne completed his PhD in Political Theory at Essex University in 2012. He presently lectures in rhetoric and political theory at Södertörn University, Sweden. He is also the university’s international research editor. He is coeditor of Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics. He is also presently working on a coedited volume on the work of Ernesto Laclau, entitled Laclau, Populism and the Left.