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Voters who support populist movements do so because they believe that current elites fail truly to represent them.
Today, they have vowed to fight government elites, Christianity, and foreign influences like the IMF and World Bank, which they accuse of re-colonizing Kenya.
Only if Ukraine maintains its independence will the imperial nostalgia of Russia’s elites be shattered.
And the message of populism is similar everywhere in the democratic world: Liberal elites are to be blamed for all our ills and anxieties, from Europe’s refugee crisis to the inequities of the global economy, from “multiculturalism” to the rise of radical Islam.
Distrust of the elites fosters distrust of the system, and the longing for great leaders who will deliver us from the selfishness of professional politicians will lead to new forms of tyranny.
Like the wild and woolly views swirling around the Internet, such figures are no longer kept at bay by traditional party elites.
It is hard to see how traditional elites are going to regain any authority.
Anger at the elites is not always unjust.
Thaksin’s unforgivable sin was his violation of Thailand’s unwritten rules about how the country’s ruling elites are to behave.
The traditional Bangkok elites had always thought of him as an uncouth upstart.
It is widely known that the anti-Thaksin business elites provided the money to keep people in the street.
Tackling climate change by turning off the lights and eating dinner by candlelight smacks of the “let them eat cake” approach to the world’s problems that appeals only to well-electrified, comfortable elites.
Since 1989, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been pursuing a two-pronged strategy: selective repression that targets organized political opposition and co-optation of new social elites (the intelligentsia, professionals, and private entrepreneurs).
Having learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union that a bureaucratic ruling party must co-opt new social elites to deprive potential opposition groups of leaders, the Communist Party has conducted an effective campaign of expanding its social base.
To the extent that China’s authoritarian regime is by nature exclusionary (it can only incorporate a limited number of elites), the co-optation strategy will soon run up against its limits, and the Party will no longer have the resources to buy off the intelligentsia or keep private entrepreneurs happy.
As long as much of Chinese society views the current political system as unjust, unresponsive, and corrupt, there will always be a large reservoir of ill will toward the ruling elites.
For most of the 20 th century, Brazilian elites thought that they could get by on natural resources - cattle ranches, coffee plantations, fruit juices, and soybean farms.
In both Germany and South Korea, the idea that historic alliances may offer fewer tangible benefits than tacit neutrality – particularly in terms of exports – appears to be taking root, especially among business elites.
There may be a link between the rise of the Internet and widespread public distrust of elites and experts, but it is not exactly clear what that link may be.
It would be facile to blame disillusion with elites on new technology.
Many countries have powerful elites with outsize influence, but in India, dynastic elites control the top echelons in every sphere of public life: politics, business, the media, and even Bollywood.
In the end, Eastern Europe's pro-EU elites were left with only one means of stirring enthusiasm for EU membership: general pronouncements about how the EU delivered peace and stability to a notoriously war-prone continent, as well as the promises of economic prosperity.
Not surprisingly, the last time American culture had such a reversal of iconography was during the Great Depression, when films like “The Grapes of Wrath” cast down-to-earth simplicity – versus the corruption of wealthy elites – as a shining virtue.
It is as if German political elites think that they are back in the era of the gold standard.
According to one view, he is betting that social conservatives and white blue-collar supporters in rural areas will vote on the basis of nationalist and religious sentiment and antipathy toward secular coastal elites, rather than for their own financial interests.
Designing a screening mechanism to minimize adverse selection in choosing bureaucrats and party officials has become one of the biggest challenges that China’s ruling elites confront.
But, of course, Western elites also benefit from higher salaries and increased profits when intellectual and physical capital flows to low-wage countries with weaker labor protections.
Trust in political elites and in national and European institutions has been steadily declining.
They are changing the face of politics, replacing traditional left-right battles with clashes pitting their own angry nativism against the cosmopolitanism of the elites they disdain.
But it is not just the elites who are blamed.
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