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PRINCETON – Many people expected the big political story of 2017 to be about the triumph of populism in Europe.
And right-wing populism has become an electoral force to be reckoned with in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Only if populism is put at the service of liberal reform will the government achieve lasting benefits.
An explosion of what is now called populism is the inevitable result.
Paradoxically, today's Left benefits from a nostalgia for those Colorado times, when Uruguay's wealth made the elder Batlle's populism possible.
Similarly, the EU’s emphasis on the power of civil society can be viewed as giving in to populism.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are practitioners of populism, American-style: they repeatedly cut taxes, increase the public debt (which doubled from 35% of GDP in 2007 to 74% of GDP at the end of 2015), and generally blame somebody else for the slow US growth that arises from low saving and investment rates.
Various rightist parties failed to decide whether the modus operandi on the political right should be traditional Western ideologies or a Hungarian brand of nationalist conservatism and populism.
Now, however, as the refugee crisis fuels populism and political polarization, the foundations of Germany’s success appear to be under threat.
He speaks the language of populism, raising hopes for the vast majority of South Africans who daily endure the misery of poor housing, schools, and health care.
Until now, populism has been the missing note in African political culture.
In this sense, populism can be a beneficial force, as it challenges a problematic status quo.
President Barack Obama’s instincts may be an exception here, but he is fighting powerful hidebound forces in the United States, as well as a demagogic populism, in the form of the Tea Party, that is far worse – and that might defeat him in 2012, seriously damaging America in the process.
Is Realism Trumping Populism?
NEW YORK – With economic conditions returning more or less to normal around the world after a decade of financial crises, nationalist populism is now seen as the biggest threat to global recovery.
This is where we come to the relationship between nationalist populism and economics.
But would such a referendum, now backed by a recently launched campaign for a “People’s Vote,” simply mark another descent into populism, instead of a genuinely democratic conclusion to the Brexit debate?
The opposite of nationalist populism is not globalist elitism.
Bush countered with concerns about security against terrorism and cultural populism on issues such as gay marriage and abortion rights.
In the end, security and cultural populism trumped economic populism.
How Populists Win When They LoseVIENNA – Today, it appears that every single election in Europe can be reduced to one central question: “Is it a win or a loss for populism?”
The notion of an unstoppable wave took for granted that both the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election in the United States were triumphs for populism, rather than for establishment conservatives.
Populism is thus a form of anti-pluralism.
The idea that the Dutch and the French elections heralded the arrival of a “post-populist moment” fails to appreciate the distinction between populism as a claim to a moral monopoly on representation and the policies – think of restrictions on immigration – typically promoted by populists as part of their exclusionary identity politics.
Yes, populism is an approach to economic policy that refuses to acknowledge the existence of budget constraints.
But populism is also – and above all – a style of politics that weakens checks and balances, runs roughshod over institutions, and replaces pluralistic deliberation with the allegedly infallible leadership of a single charismatic leader.
For all these reasons, as writers from Princeton’s Jan-Werner Muller to Harvard’s Yascha Mounk have stressed, political populism is a growing threat to liberal democracy.
The United States and Europe may just be discovering (or rediscovering) this, but Latin Americans know well from history that populism harbors a dangerous authoritarian streak.
More fundamentally, AMLO’s approach to corruption is textbook populism: social problems that seem complex have simple solutions, and they have not been solved only because traditional elites do not want them solved.
Populism is a kind of identity politics.
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