PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Post-Materialism, Identity Politics, Demagogue
Document Summary
The rise of populism in the western world- a long time in the making. Trump"s overtake of the republican party and the american presidency. The rise of the far right in germany, france, hungary, poland . Turkey coup and president erdogan"s counter-coup response. The father of all populists: putin presidency in russia. 1990"s globalization shattered the post-ww2 consensus: the rise of inequality, globalization has driven the greatest reshuffle of individual income since the. Post-materialism and the rise of identity politics: withdrawal of class politics and undermining of the traditional left party program. Populism is an ideology that separates society into two homogeneous camps/groups, the pure people" and the corrupt elite", and that holds that politics should be an expression of the general will" of the (right kind of) people. In principle, populism presents itself as democratic but is always illiberal.
