In his cartoon, the donkey, standing in for the Copperhead press, is kicking a dead lion, representing President Lincoln’s recently deceased press secretary (E.M. Stanton). With this simple but artfully rendered statement, Nast succinctly articulated his belief that the Copperheads, a group op...
Hence, this book first summarizes social choice theory in order to explain the full force of its critique. Then it explains, in terms of social choice theory, how politics and public issues change and develop. Finally, it reconciles democratic ideals with this new understanding of politics. ...
To discover what all populist actors have in common, ideally, one would need to studyallpopulists. But because this is practically impossible, I selected six populist actors from backgrounds as divergent as possible in terms of time, space and ideology. Political actors have been included only w...
interms to speak of “liberal populism”, whereas that expression would appear to bealmost senseless in Europe, given the different understandings ofbothliberalismand populism on the different sides of the Atlantic. As is well known, “liberal”means something like Social Democratic in North ...
This is not to say that we know for sure what our own populist moment will bring. To understand both its significance and its potential, however, we should look not at the classical portrait of populism but rather at its unique manifestation in the United States — a history that is, by...
I argue that this owes little to any imagined charisma on Trump’s part, but a great deal to the social situations in which his followers find themselves – a social media echo chamber, membership of an exciting and revolutionary movement, and the possession of simple answers (MAGA) to compl...
Below is a simple 10x10 grid. You will note that I have filled in the box on the extreme right. That represents the 1% who (per Thomas Piketty) now receive more than 20% of the GNP and almost certainly control an even higher percentage of the nation's accrued wealth. There is no qu...
‘us vs them’, the 99% vs. the 1%, the many not the few—in socioeconomic terms—is of course a hallmark of populism, as Ramindu Perera has noted. But he is unaware of or omits its corollary, everywhere from Uruguay to Greece and Spain. Namely that socioeconomic ‘majoritarianism’...
One of the chief questions is that the simple enlargement of the State cannot be taken as a trustworthy indicator of the stability and regularity of the new institutions. In order to secure their sustainability, these need to be propped up by accountable governance and a broader cultural ...
So in every state, there are countless niches and countless Paretto distributions, and the variance between average state incomes often is due to simple geography, as people are free to move around or replicate new ideas going on in other states, such as frozen yogurt, overpriced coffee, or ...