Populism. Benjamin Moffitt
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Название: Populism

Автор: Benjamin Moffitt

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Афоризмы и цитаты

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СКАЧАТЬ populism’ as a way of moving beyond socialism or social democracy advocated by the likes of Mouffe (2018) and Laclau (2005a), and ponders over whether these arguments hold water at a time when the left-wing populist moment seems to be waning.

      Chapter 5 examines the relationship between populism and liberalism. Against widespread claims that populism is always illiberal, this chapter argues that the reality is far more complex, as right-wing populists increasingly reconfigure liberal tropes for their own purposes – for example, they claim to oppose more open immigration policies or cultural diversity in order to protect gender and sexual equality – and left-wing populists in Europe and the Americas often maintain a commitment to pluralism in their conception of ‘the people’. Exploring the ways in which populists engage with, exploit and deploy various tenets of liberalism while undermining others to a serious degree, the chapter shows that the binary between populism and liberalism is far from impermeable and that questions of liberalism, pluralism and heterogeneity raise important questions about how we seek to define and identify cases of populism in the contemporary political landscape.

      And so, by the end of this book, you should have a much better of idea of

       what populism ‘is’ and what is at stake in debates over its meaning;

       the key conceptual and normative drivers behind different schools of thought on populism;

       how populism interacts with other key isms in the contemporary political landscape – especially nationalism, nativism, socialism and liberalism; and

       how different visions of democracy underlie whether populism is seen as a threat or as a corrective to democratic politics.

      There are also good practical reasons to pay attention to the concept of populism. In a world beset by increased polarisation, the growth of anti-elite sentiment, and the proliferation of fake news, echo chambers and increasingly partisan media, populism is not going to go away any time soon. Despite the wishful thinking of those who dream of ‘the death of populism’ or those who aim to ‘defeat populism’ once and for all, it looks like populism is here to stay; while the time of Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Marine Le Pen will eventually come up, the fact of the matter is that new Trumps, new Modis and new Le Pens are likely to emerge in their shadows. More so, the legacies of populism will linger: while a populist actor can disappear from the political landscape, he or she can have significant long-term cultural and institutional effects – effects of a kind that, say, a post-Trump Republican Party (and US politics more generally) will surely have to grapple with. In such circumstances, no matter where you stand when it comes to populism – against it, for it, or on the fence about it – the reality is that it matters; it is here and, rather than being a blip on the political radar, has become a central part of contemporary political life. Understanding the concept is thus of vital importance today. Hopefully this book can help you in this key task.

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