The article focuses on the relationship between technocracy and populism during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. On one hand, this relationship has been defined by populist denial, displacement of crisis, and rejection of the technocratic consensus on the need for urgent a...
such as conventions or conferences. In those events, party activists, as delegates, may have the right to vote on party policies, leadership or parliamentary candidates (Ceron2019; Meyer2013). The levels of intra-party democracy affect activists’ impact; some parties may ...
If liberals can’t do populism, the converse is also true: conservatives are not much good at gentility. We don’t do affectless voices, it seems. There are genteel conservative events—I’ve been to about a million of them and have the NoDoz pharmacy receipts to prove it—but they pre...
Another crucial question is whether an individual’s personal traits affect their legitimacy ratings. To examine this, we focus on the right panel of Fig. 5. Here, we compare those who vote consistently to those who do not vote consistently. Please recall that the gray vertical line in the ...
We develop aNegative Institutional Power Theory(NIPT) which suggests that,ceteris paribus, different endowments of negative power, i.e., states’ opportunities to avoid undesired institutional outcomes, affect how radically they contest the institution. Our key claim is that the more limited (extensive...
Right-wing populism is on the rise in Western Europe. Over the years, right-wing populist parties like the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), the Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the British UK Independence Party (UKIP) have become important political players (McDonnell and Werner, 2017). In a ...
I recently reflected on Stafford Beer’s concept of POSIWID –“The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does,” explored in Harish Jose‘s insightful article, available here A Constructivist’s View of POSIWID. While I find substantial agreement with the principles of POSIWID as put in the arti...
TOVE: What does the decline of the liberal hegemonic order and the emerging “multiplex world” imply for those states in which democracy is fragile and human rights abuses rife? ACHARYA: I really don’t see a necessary link between the weakening of liberal hegemony and the rise of human ri...
The interviewee is aware that “we also have to accept a certain amount of restrictions”. Still, he believes that the Ultranet line and wind energy projects threaten to undermine democracy in the region, limiting fundamental rights of citizens. He sees the energy projects driven by legislative ...
Several researchers raise the question of how right-wing populism and governments with an anti-EU stance might affect energy transitions, suggesting that they can potentially hinder just transitions (Haas, 2019; Mayer, 2022). All of these factors together –socio-technical, economic, historical and...