Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Plurality Voting System, The Real People, Charismatic Authority
26 Jun 2018
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Populism and the Extreme Right
What are they?
Not protest parties
Established bases of support
Key Issues, Immigration and Integration
Not catchall
Outperforming Neofascist parties
But no conventional appeal
What do they stand for
Reject principle of human equality
Nativism and ethno nationalism
Not exclusively about jobs and resources
More on threat to national community life
Reason to support immigration restrictions
Embrace populism
The people are homogenous against pluralism
Opposition to a narrow minority
People as victims
The real people are sovereign
Why do they emerge
When issues of immigration and national integration are salient
Mainstream parties ignore or mismanage these issues
When are party ingredients are available
Charismatic leadership
Organization
Avoidance of anti democratic and overly racist
With the help of electoral systems
With proportional representation
The Dutch Case
Late start, trust in elites
Key issues
Established parties failed to respond
The US Case
It cannot happen there, single member plurality and two party system
No PEP Trump commandeered one of the two major parties
Trumps Opening
Socially conservative, fiscally lineal Republicans
Who fear they are loosing their country
Donald Trump as a populist
The system is rigged against “me”
I won in a landslide
He is a con man, has no intention to implement these policies that he
makes promises of, makes them up as he goes along
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Document Summary
More on threat to national community life. When issues of immigration and national integration are salient. Mainstream parties ignore or mismanage these issues. Avoidance of anti democratic and overly racist. It cannot happen there, single member plurality and two party system. No pep trump commandeered one of the two major parties. Who fear they are loosing their country. He is a con man, has no intention to implement these policies that he makes promises of, makes them up as he goes along. They just keep campaigning, making more promises big talk. They are against the enemies of the people, the constantly find new people to blame. Do not let these parties form coalitions. But by doing this they gain fuel for their fire as outsiders. Debate these parties on their key issues. Tempting to adopt the ideas of the populists. With the community, to build up a repertoire with them. Do not confine yourself to solely economic agenda.
