PopulismPub Date : 2019-10-14DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02021033
M. Steger
{"title":"Mapping Antiglobalist Populism","authors":"M. Steger","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02021033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02021033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article argues that the current explosion of right-wing national-populism is intricately connected to shifting perceptions of globalization in the world. I contend that a return to the once dominant but now frequently criticized ideational approach to the study of populism as ideology or discourse can provide insightful, if incomplete, explanations of the current populist moment. After a brief opening overview of some influential conceptual perspectives on populism, the article offers an appraisal of some major criticisms leveled against the ideological paradigm by advocates of competing approaches. I argue that the widespread portrayal of populism as a “thin-centered” ideology does not capture the ideational constellation of what I call antiglobalist populism. The currently dominant strain is reflected most prominently in “Trumpism” and similar European manifestations. To make my case, I apply the qualitative method of morphological discourse analysis (MDA) to key 2016 campaign speeches delivered by then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and to related public remarks presented by British national-populist leader Nigel Farage on American soil. The research findings presented in this article suggest that globalization-related concepts have moved to the core and adjacent symbolic environment of antiglobalist populism. Thus, the general assumption of a “thin” conceptual core of national-populism no longer holds because its morphology has been significantly enriched. Bringing ideology back into populism studies serves the much-needed rehabilitation of a valuable perspective that has been written off too prematurely by many populism scholars.","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02021033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49648156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-10-14DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02021035
Amy E. Eckert
{"title":"The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics, written by John B Judis","authors":"Amy E. Eckert","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02021035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02021035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02021035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42598395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-22DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011019
M. Steger
{"title":"Populism: An Introduction, written by Manuel Anselmi","authors":"M. Steger","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45216213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011020
J. Dunn
{"title":"The Challenge of Populism","authors":"J. Dunn","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Populism is not a determinate political phenomenon, but a heuristic category deployed to diagnose the sources of danger to well established representative democracy through the workings of its core institutions. As a political charge, populism is deployed by defenders of established parties to denounce interlopers who threaten them at the ballot box and in less formal settings. When actualised, it is a natural political retribution for governmental ineffectuality in face of protracted crisis. Populism is no danger for Korea. The level of risk for populist triumph is the reciprocal of prior failure in democratic government. Both the Trump Presidency and the Brexit Referendum are populist responses to prior governmental failure in well-established democracies. Populism is always a consequence, not a cause, of political failure.","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48554580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011026
Kurt Weyland
{"title":"Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe: Into the Mainstream?, edited by Akkerman, Tjitske, Sarah L. de Lange, and Matthijs RooduijnAfter Europe, written by Ivan Krastev","authors":"Kurt Weyland","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41667773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011024
T. Lim
{"title":"Populism from a Latin American Perspective","authors":"T. Lim","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011024","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Discourses on contemporary populism owe much to the populism of the mid-20th century’s Latin America. From a Latin American perspective, the current paper critically reviews Dunn’s and Han’s papers on populism. These two papers are not quite directly comparable in their arguments because their analyses have discrete focuses and levels. Still, Dunn’s argument reasonably reflects the cases of the West whereas Han’s explains the Korean case quite effectively. One question that emerges from their discussion on populism is how generalizable their arguments are beyond the specific cases. From the perspective of Latin America, Dunn’s and Han’s arguments seem to have limited implications for understanding classical populism and contemporary neopopulism in Latin America though they provide insightful thoughts to rethink the political economy of the region with.","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47717119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011021
C. D. Torre, Oscar Mazzoleni
{"title":"Do We Need a Minimum Definition of Populism? An Appraisal of Mudde’s Conceptualization","authors":"C. D. Torre, Oscar Mazzoleni","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This contribution discusses the advantages and disadvantages of Cas Mudde’s minimalist definition to study populism. It argues that his proposal might facilitate consensus among scholars, yet his conceptualization is an obstacle to grasp the complexity of populism in its diverse manifestations over space and time. Moreover, some underlying normative assumptions limit the reach of his concept to small rightwing populist European parties at the fringes of the political system. The article argues for the necessity to recognize pluralism and hybridism avoiding any reductionism in populism scholarship. Populism cannot be reduced to one of its components, like a moralist ideology. Populism is also a strategy, a political style, and a discursive frame.","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44590050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011023
B. Kim
{"title":"Populism, Democracy and South Korea","authors":"B. Kim","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011023","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this commentary, I raise some questions. The first is about the structural limitation of liberal democracy. The second is about the inherent weaknesses of populist democracy, the third about the future prospects of democracy in South Korea, and the last one about possible reforms that can improve the efficiency of governance in liberal democracy and populist democracy.","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49433477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PopulismPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1163/25888072-02011025
Sang-Jin Han
{"title":"Genealogical Traces of Populism and Multiple Typologies of Populist Orientation in South Korea","authors":"Sang-Jin Han","doi":"10.1163/25888072-02011025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-02011025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper is aimed at two goals. The first is to outline major genealogical traces of populism in South Korea. The second is to develop multiple typologies of populist citizens. The first is speculative and comprehensive, while the latter is analytic and empirical. The major findings of the empirical analysis show significant attitudinal differences 1) between two groups of citizens: populist and conventionalist; 2) between two groups within populism, that is, power-oriented and public-oriented populist citizens; 3) between the neo-liberal populist and the welfare populist; and finally, 4) between the candlelight populist and the national flag populist. It is also found 5) that the multiple typologies of populist orientations are closely interrelated to merge into two distinct streams: one is conservative and the other is progressive. These findings yield many political implications that require further research and reflection.","PeriodicalId":29733,"journal":{"name":"Populism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/25888072-02011025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49513364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}