POLS 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cas Mudde, Backsliding, Democratic Consolidation
13 Dec 2018
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1 leader centered is often focused on the charisma of a particular leader (cult of personality) 3 broad promises fundamentally redirecting a society with things they do not have. 1 populists have a strong sense of nationalism (who is in and who is out) 2 historical perspective on nationalism a golden era which the leader is trying to bring them back to. Economics our interdependence with other countries have caused us to lose control of our assets. Concerns over immigration and who is considered a citizen xenophobia. 5 centralization of power steps a populist leader takes to decrease their power and weaken the position of the opposition, domestic critics, media, and institutions. Putinism russian resurgence fits in with most of these charactorics. Brexit popular vote to leave the european union (2017) China and russia have similar authoritarian characteristics, but one is capitalist and the other is communist. (2017) it can be progressive or conservative.
