[PDF] A Populist Manifesto eBook

Author : Emmy Eklundh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 178661264X

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This volume brings together a range of scholars dissatisfied with the mainstream of the populism debate. It intends to bring forward a perspective which envisions populism not simply as a negative aspect of politics, but as a way of doing politics. Contemporary politics has been characterised by the overarching presence of populism, while simultaneously engendering a sense of fear and extremism around the results of populist movements. This collection intends to unpack the true potential for movements from and by the people, linking these historically and offering a new lens for thinking about contemporary populism. What can we learn from recent events? How can these lessons inform how we think about politics for the future? Offering this approach, from the perspective of populist potential, will help us answer these questions and open the debate with contributors from countries or regions that have a tradition of populism, privileging them with a deeper understanding.

Author : Richard Davies Parker
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Provocative in style and substance, Parker's manifesto challenges orthodoxies of constitutional legal studies, particularly the idea that constitutionalism and populist democracy stand opposed. He contends that constitutional law should promote, not limit, the expression of ordinary political energy--to extend, rather than constrain, majority rule.

Author : David M. Ricci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108808093

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Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalization, and the rise of temporary jobs - all breeding resentment. Rather than dwelling on symptoms, Ricci focuses on the root of our nation's problems. Thus, creative destruction, aiming at perpetual economic growth, encouraged by neoliberalism, creates the economic inequality that fuels resentment and leads to increased populism. Ricci urges political scientists to highlight this destruction meaningfully and substantively, to use empirical realism to put human beings back into politics. Ricci's sensible argument conveys a sense of political urgency, grappling with real-world problems and working to transform abstract speculations into tangible, useful tools. The result is a passionate book, important not only to political scientists, but to anyone who cares about public life.

Author : Christopher Milanovic
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781543095265

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The rise of Populist leaders offering simplistic 'solutions' to the problems of modern societies is unprecedented. Voters are increasingly rejecting the tired programs of mainstream parties that are incapable of addressing the actions that are required if western liberal-democracy is to survive and thrive. The 'Anti-Populist Manifesto' offers a program of reform and policies that are essential for survival. The problem is, as the author concedes, that they are too radical for any serious chance of implementation - it is after all, an anti-populist program. If some useful ideas are proposed and if some thought and debate results, then something will have been achieved. But make no mistake, these solutions will cause pain, particularly to the world of corporations that appear to be a law unto themselves, beyond the reach of single nations, even those with the will to act. You may not like what you hear, but you will be challenged to think.

Author : John Donald Hicks
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 1931
Category : History
ISBN : 0816660085

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Populist Revolt was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. When The Populist Revolt was originally published, the New York Times critic called it "far and away the best account of populism that we have—and one not likely to be replaced." That prophecy proved right; the book has not been replaced, and historians and critics agree that it is the definitive work on its subject. Now it is made available once more, after being out of print for some time. This is a history of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, under whose banners a great crusade for farm relief was waged in the 1880's and 1890's. As important as the chronicle of the political movement itself is the detailed picture which Professor Hicks gives of the conditions which set the stage for this agrarian revolt. He describes the inequities and malpractices which beset both the new settlers of the West and the poverty-ridden whites and Negroes of the South following the Civil War. The story of Populism itself is a lively one, people with such picturesque leaders as "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman of South Carolina, "Sockless" Jerry Simpson and Mary Elizabeth Lease—the "Patrick Henry in petticoats"—of Kansas, "Bloody Bridles" Waite of Colorado, Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, Dr. C. W. Macune of Texas, James B. Weaver of Iowa, and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. In these pages, Professor Hicks has, as Frederic L. Paxson pointed out, "presented the case for Populism better than the Populists themselves could do it." Henry Steele Commanger calls the book a "thorough, scholarly, sympathetic and spirited history of the entire Populist movement."