Explaining the Populist Right in the Neoliberal West
With the 2016 double shock of Brexit and Trump, the populist right has become a game- changing force on both sides of the North Atlantic. A proper explanation needs to combine political, economic, and cultural elements. Qua populism, the populist right addresses a political condition, which is neoli...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:197579 2024-06-23T07:55:07+00:00 Explaining the Populist Right in the Neoliberal West Joppke, Christian 2023 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/197579/1/societies-13-00110-v2.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/197579/ eng eng MDPI https://boris.unibe.ch/197579/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Joppke, Christian (2023). Explaining the Populist Right in the Neoliberal West. Societies, 13(5), p. 110. MDPI 10.3390/soc13050110 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc13050110> 300 Social sciences sociology & anthropology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2023 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13050110 2024-06-11T14:13:51Z With the 2016 double shock of Brexit and Trump, the populist right has become a game- changing force on both sides of the North Atlantic. A proper explanation needs to combine political, economic, and cultural elements. Qua populism, the populist right addresses a political condition, which is neoliberalism’s endemic democracy deficit. However, the illiberal democracy that populists advocate is not a cure for it. Cleavage theory in the Lipset–Rokkan tradition sheds light on the rightist orientation and the nationalist content of this populism. The main explanatory challenge remains the combination of economic and cultural factors in the rise of populism. In economic respect, middle- class decline under a neoliberal order seems to be the root cause of populism. However, its agenda is culture-focused, amounting to a nationalist opposition to immigration and cosmopolitanism. This “cultural deflection” is a persistent puzzle. The minimum to conclude is that one-sided accounts of populism in exclusively economic or cultural terms are unconvincing. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Societies 13 5 110 |
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With the 2016 double shock of Brexit and Trump, the populist right has become a game- changing force on both sides of the North Atlantic. A proper explanation needs to combine political, economic, and cultural elements. Qua populism, the populist right addresses a political condition, which is neoliberalism’s endemic democracy deficit. However, the illiberal democracy that populists advocate is not a cure for it. Cleavage theory in the Lipset–Rokkan tradition sheds light on the rightist orientation and the nationalist content of this populism. The main explanatory challenge remains the combination of economic and cultural factors in the rise of populism. In economic respect, middle- class decline under a neoliberal order seems to be the root cause of populism. However, its agenda is culture-focused, amounting to a nationalist opposition to immigration and cosmopolitanism. This “cultural deflection” is a persistent puzzle. The minimum to conclude is that one-sided accounts of populism in exclusively economic or cultural terms are unconvincing. |
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