REMESO Open Seminar Jason Frank - The problem with "Populism"

[REMESO Newsletter]

"The Problem with 'Populism'"

Jason Frank

Professor and Chair, Dep. of Government

Cornell University

Wednesday 15/5, Room K51


“Populism” is a notoriously ambiguous political concept, but it has become the dominant term, for scholars and journalists alike, to describe the emergent authoritarianisms of our time and the dangers they pose to liberal democracy. This talk will critically examine how populism has been conceptualized in contemporary democratic theory, and argue that both populism’s liberal critics and radical democratic admirers share a questionable understanding of the concept.  Turning to populism’s nineteenth-century American history, the talk will offer an alternative view of populism as a source of democratic renewal rather than democratic decline.


Jason has sent us some texts related to his talk next week. They are attached.


Welcome!


Erik and Peo


Erik Berggren
Forskningskoordinator


REMESO
Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society
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