Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0226
Daniel Miller
Abstract:This article offers an analysis of the populism that is currently ascendent in U.S. politics and society, which takes an ethno-nationalist form. This article argues that contemporary American ethno-nationalism is fantastical in character, rather than being based on empirical political or social concerns. Bringing together the well-established image of the social as the “body politic,” Slavoj Žižek’s theory of political fantasy, and the insights of transgender theory, the article argues that contemporary American ethno-nationalism represents a dysphoric response to a social body experienced as fundamentally misshapen or deformed.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0111
J. Pieterse
Abstract:Should a discussion of populism be concerned with populism, along with revulsion of its various extremisms, or should it rather be concerned with the failure of institutions and the misbehavior of elites in a world in which eight billionaires own as much as half the world population? The former option will yield a totally different and probably somewhat more predictable discussion than the latter, which may include “from bad to worse.” A third option is that different types of market economies yield different types of populism, including pluto-populism. This discussion follows the latter two options.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0158
Allen Dunn
Abstract:This article discusses the ethics of right-wing populism. Using the works of psychologist Jonathan Haidt, it argues that there is a fundamental difference in the ethical orientations of right-wing populists and their liberal opponents. This difference helps explain the populist distrust of deliberative dialogue. It also sheds light on the political polarization that has resulted from the recent culture wars.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0128
E. Ziarek
Abstract:This article juxtaposes Laclau’s defense of left-wing populism with Arendt’s theory of democratic alliances and political action. This juxtaposition adds two new questions to the debates on populism: First, what is the relation between popular political demands and populist identities? Second, is popular agency synonymous with popular sovereignty? Ultimately at stake in this debate is the articulation of political engagements that are able to provide an alternative to the right-wing mobilization of populism.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0261
J. Robbins
Abstract:This article provides a critical assessment of the populist nationalism associated with President Donald Trump. Using Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” as an inspiration, it makes the argument that Trump’s populism is in fact a cover for a corporatist agenda. Further, it argues that the evangelical right’s support of Trump exposes the sense of white grievance that has animated its political mobilization from the start.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0253
K. Rees
Abstract:This response to Daniel Miller’s theoretical-philosophical reflection on the nature of a democratic social body offers a critique anchored in an empirically grounded comparative framework. Incorporating various internationally recognized benchmarks of political freedoms and civil liberties into Miller’s already well-developed analytical framework, which draws substantially on queer theory, provides a potentially stronger normative foundation for the discussion.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0152
Tijen Demirel-Pegg
Abstract:This article discusses two main issues Ziarek highlights regarding populist social movements. The first one is the exclusionary stance populist movements take when contending for power in a democratic society. The second one is the repressive response to contenders when populist movements are in power. The underlying characteristic in both issues is that populists movements assume an anti-pluralist stance against other contending alternatives. Therefore, the distinction between “popular” and “populist” is an important one.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0196
M. Morgan
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Pub Date : 2019-07-29DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.2-3.0170
M. Bradley
Abstract:Allen Dunn’s article is based on American right-wing populist groups that feel undermined and alienated. Right-wing populist groups feel a sense of abandonment and that their real (or perceived) demands are not being addressed by the government. Dunn’s article could have advanced this conversation by addressing questions such as these: How does a federalist democracy like the United States reconcile opposition voices (or ideological-minority voices)? Likewise, who defines liberty, oppression, and subversion or fairness in society? And since all populist (left- and right-wing) groups tend to be anti-pluralist, how can political mediation in American-style democracy exist?
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Pub Date : 2019-01-19DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.1.0031
Devon Brickhouse-Bryson
Abstract:Reflective equilibrium is a powerful and popular method of theory evaluation. This article argues that the judgments of coherence required by the method are unexplained by the going accounts of reflective equilibrium and that they are best understood as a species of judgments of beauty. It argues that the distinctive feature of judgments of beauty is that they are unprincipled and yet nevertheless possible and that judgments of coherence share this distinctive feature. This conclusion entails that reflective equilibrium is a partially aesthetic method of theory evaluation and that part of using the method is evaluating candidate theories by their beauty.
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