Populism Is a Distraction
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Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Abstract
Should a discussion of populism be concerned with populism—along with revulsion of its various extremisms (perhaps along with hints of social and psychopathology and hence, implicit endorsement of ‘moderate’ positions)? Or should it rather be concerned with the failure of institutions and the misbehavior of elites in a world in which 8 billionaires own as much as half the world population? Option a) will yield a totally different and probably somewhat more predictable discussion than option b), which may include ‘from bad to worse’. According to option c) different types of populism—including ‘pluto-populism’—should generate different treatments. This discussion follows options b) and c).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- The Domestic Politics of European Preferences Towards Global Economic Governance
- Rethinking the Kantian Peace: Evidence from a Liberal, Moderate, and Conservative Measure of Norm Diffusion
- Commentaries
- How Might 21st-Century De-Globalization Unfold? Some Historical Reflections
- Populism, Ideology and Materialism
- Populism Is a Distraction
- Review Essay
- Paolo Gerbaudo: The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest, Benjamin Moffitt: The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation
- Documentation
- Teaching Global Intimacies
- Book Reviews
- Walter Scheidel: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Sabine Selchow: Negotiations of the “New World”: The Omnipresence of “Global” as a Political Phenomenon
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- The Domestic Politics of European Preferences Towards Global Economic Governance
- Rethinking the Kantian Peace: Evidence from a Liberal, Moderate, and Conservative Measure of Norm Diffusion
- Commentaries
- How Might 21st-Century De-Globalization Unfold? Some Historical Reflections
- Populism, Ideology and Materialism
- Populism Is a Distraction
- Review Essay
- Paolo Gerbaudo: The Mask and the Flag: Populism, Citizenism and Global Protest, Benjamin Moffitt: The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation
- Documentation
- Teaching Global Intimacies
- Book Reviews
- Walter Scheidel: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
- Sabine Selchow: Negotiations of the “New World”: The Omnipresence of “Global” as a Political Phenomenon
