After the Backlash: Populism and the Politics and Ethics of Migration
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Stephen Macedo
Abstract
In the U.S., and elsewhere, populism has been democracy’s way of shaking elites up. We can view populism in part as a revolt of the losers, or perceived losers, of globalization. Yet elites have often paid too little heed to the domestic distributive impact of high immigration and globalized trade. Immigration and globalization are also spurring forms of nativism and demagoguery that threaten both democratic deliberation and undermine progressive political coalitions. The challenge now is to find the most reasonable – or least unreasonable – responses to the new politics of resentment: ways that recognize that egalitarian liberalism and social democracy are national projects and preserve progressive political coalitions, while also acknowledging our interconnections, duties, and moral obligations to those beyond our borders.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- After the Backlash: Populism and the Politics and Ethics of Migration
- A Defense of Non-Representational Constitutionalism: Why Constitutions Need Not Be Representational
- Understanding Multi-directional Democratic Decay: Lessons from the Rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil
- The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-Led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding
- The Occupied Territories, Gaza, and Israel’s Recent Slide to Authoritarianism
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- After the Backlash: Populism and the Politics and Ethics of Migration
- A Defense of Non-Representational Constitutionalism: Why Constitutions Need Not Be Representational
- Understanding Multi-directional Democratic Decay: Lessons from the Rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil
- The Strategic Common Law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-Led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding
- The Occupied Territories, Gaza, and Israel’s Recent Slide to Authoritarianism
