In modern-day democracy, in a context where the people feel disregarded by the groups in power, populism plays an important role in reaching and appealing to the masses serving the ruling groups and their hold over the reins of power. In simple terms, it refers to a propaganda tool for ...
The question of the fate—and possible future—of civil society today, the question central to all the papers in this collection, raises the question of populism for a simple reason. Just about all understandings of civil society and its merits stress the importance of intermediate powers: ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
We now study an extension with a simple parameterization of civil service strength. When politicians try to fire bureaucrats, they succeed with probability ϕ and fail with probability 1-ϕ. If they fail, the bureaucrat simply stays in office as if she was retained. A high ϕ means the...
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...
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...
Complexity of the physical and conceptual terms of NMA; Argumentation of the author about the architecture of the NMA that refuses a simple or uncritical representation of popularity; Differences of the significant between theme park and mausoleum which corresponds with a parallel scale of popular ...