Among the intellectual legacies of Stanley Hoffmann are reflections on right-wing politics. Today they seem more than ever relevant to understanding a world of triumphant populism. 1 Hoffmann’s early publications include studies of groups with some
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Humpty Dumpty Populism
Theopolitics and the Retreat of the Politico-theological in Venezuela (and Elsewhere)
Rafael Sánchez
evidence; 2 from a political point of view, however, his proclamation, and its apparent mendacity, is not straightforward. Maduro's contempt for the ‘facts’ is itself highly revealing, or so I argue, of the kind of post-truth populism into which a
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Populism
The Timeline of a Concept
Juan Francisco Fuentes
Populism and the “Cinderella Complex” The academic definitions of the concept of populism usually stress the pejorative sense of the term, the manipulating nature of the phenomenon, and its aversion to political and intellectual elites. This latter
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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Benjamin Moffitt
While the rise of populism in Western Europe over the past three decades has received a great deal of attention in the academic and popular literature, less attention has been paid to the rise of its opposite— anti-populism. This short article examines the discursive and stylistic dimensions of the construction and maintenance of the populism/anti-populism divide in Western Europe, paying particular attention to how anti-populists seek to discredit populist leaders, parties and followers. It argues that this divide is increasingly antagonistic, with both sides of the divide putting forward extremely different conceptions of how democracy should operate in the Western European political landscape: one radical and popular, the other liberal. It closes by suggesting that what is subsumed and feared under the label of the “populist threat” to democracy in Western Europe today is less about populism than nationalism and nativism.
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Neither Shadow nor Spectre
Populism as the Ideological Embodiment of the Democratic Paradox
Anthony Lawrence Borja
) democracies. Ideological decontestation determines not only the ideological development of populist movements, but also the subsequent trajectory of populism's relationship with democratic politics. Therefore, this article exposes and dissects the triadic and
Right-Wing Populism and International Issues
A Case Study of the AfD
Christiane Lemke
, poses a challenge to international engagement. The current crisis in the international order is fueled by nationalism and populism. In this crisis several principles are called into question: liberalism, as well as pluralism in the domestic setting
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Populist Rhetoric and Nativist Alarmism
The AfD in Comparative Perspective
Barbara Donovan
eastern German phenomenon. 5 This study acknowledges those important aspects, but examines the party in relation to other similar political forces in Europe. The article focuses on two particular features of the European party landscape—populism and
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Migration, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Knowledge
An Interview with Juliano Fiori
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Juliano Fiori
. New populisms of the right now challenge the liberal norms and institutions that have shaped the existing refugee regime and have promoted freer movement of people across borders. Can decolonial and anticolonial thinking provide a basis for responses
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Support for a Populist Government in Poland
A Few Notes about Its Economic and Cultural Divides
Michał Gulczyński
abandoning its anti-establishment attitude. In this section, I describe how PiS has created a “populist establishment” or, in other words, a “paternalist populism” ( Enyedi 2020 ), which—contrary to the liberal ascription of a large role for civil society in
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Adele Webb
Public ambivalence towards democracy has come under increasing scrutiny. It is a mood registered perhaps most clearly in the fact populist figures, from Trump to Orbàn to Duterte, appear to carry strong appeal despite the fact, or perhaps because of the fact, they pose a threat to democratic institutions and processes of governance. Are ambivalent citizens the grave threat to democracy they are often portrayed to be in media and academic discourse on populism? In this article, I contend that citizens’ ambivalence about democracy is a more complex, spirited and volitional idea than is acknowledged in the current discussion of populism. Drawing on psychoanalysis and critical social thought, I embrace a conception of citizens’ ambivalence in a democracy as both immanent and desirable. I argue ambivalence can be a form of participation in democracy that is crucial to safeguarding its future.
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Dec 2018
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