Of Scribes and Tribes: Progressive Politics and the Populist Challenge

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2019-10-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2019.1671682

B. Yack

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Abstract

ABSTRACT What has made progressives—self-styled champions of the people—the principal targets of populist resentment in contemporary politics? Perhaps it is progressives’ ambivalence about democracy, not merely the racist, sexist and nationalist passions that progressives prefer to blame. Indeed, one of the reasons that progressives find themselves under attack as out-of-touch elitists may be that they are out of touch with the nature and extent of their elitism. So long as progressives remain committed to enlightening the people as well as empowering them, to bringing about social improvement as well as social justice, they are bound to express some discomfort with democracy, no matter how sincerely they may praise it. If they want to mount a more effective response to the populist challenge to progressive politics, then, they need first to acknowledge and address the sources of their ambivalence about democracy.

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《文士与部落:进步政治与民粹主义挑战》

摘要：是什么让进步派——自封的人民拥护者——成为当代政治中民粹主义怨恨的主要目标？也许是进步派对民主的矛盾心理，而不仅仅是进步派更喜欢指责的种族主义、性别歧视和民族主义情绪。事实上，进步派发现自己被攻击为脱离现实的精英主义者的原因之一可能是他们脱离了精英主义的性质和程度。只要进步派仍然致力于启发人民并赋予他们权力，实现社会进步和社会正义，他们肯定会对民主表示一些不满，无论他们多么真诚地赞扬民主。如果他们想对民粹主义对进步政治的挑战做出更有效的回应，那么，他们首先需要承认并解决他们对民主矛盾心理的根源。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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期刊介绍： Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable? Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.