POL 363: Populism Fall

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1 Instructor Room No. Yunas Samad 120 Academic Block Office Hours TBC Telephone 8108 Secretary/TA TBC TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) POL 363: Populism Fall COURSE BASICS Credit Hours 4 Lecture(s) 2 Per Week Duration 1:50 hours Recitation/Lab (per None Duration week) Tutorial (per week) None Duration COURSE DESCRIPTION There has been considerable interest in concept of populism, both in the academy and media, with the unexpected election victory of President Trump, the Brexit Referendum and rise of far right groups within the European Union in particular France. This module will introduce students to the debate on how the concept is defined in different ways: as an ideology, discourse and strategy and then reflect on the causes of populism, the role of the leadership and voter motivation. Students then will be introduced to populism during the interwar period, investigate what is now considered to be the classical period of populism, before engaging with contemporary forms of populism in a comparative framework. Considering its more recent manifestations in the developed and developing world. Finally, the programme will consider the implication for democracy, in a number of different ways, with emergence of populism and also investigate any relationship it may have with economic crisis. COURSE OBJECTIVES The course seeks to achieve the following goals: 1. Introduce students to the key concepts, theories and debates on populism. 2. Investigate the phenomena in a historical and comparative framework. 3. Training the students to critically evaluate various theories and frameworks and apply them comparatively. 4. Enabling students to develop an understanding of the relationship between populism, democracy and the economy. 1

2 GRADING Attendance 10% Class Participation 5% Group Presentation 15% Group Presentation 15% Assignment 25% Final Examination 30% COURSE OUTLINE PART I: WHAT IS POPULISM? Session 1: Introduction: overview of the module Session 2: The study of populism Canovan, Margaret "Populism for Political Theorists?". Journal of Political Ideologies 9(3): Jansen, Robert S "Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism." Sociological Theory 29(2): Puhle, Hans-Jürgen "Old and New Populisms in the 21th Century: Continuities and Change." Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. Session 3: Re-conceptualizing populism: democratic illiberalism vs liberal democracy Canovan, Margaret "Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy." Political Studies 47(1):1-16. Mény, Yves and Yves Surel "The Constitutive Ambiguity of Populism." Pp in Democracies and the Populist Challenge, edited by Y. Mény and Y. Surel. Houndmills: Palgrave. Rooduijn, Matthijs "The Nucleus of Populism: In Search of the Lowest Common Denominator." Government and Opposition 49(4): Taguieff, Pierre-André "Political Science Confronts Populism: From a Conceptual Mirage to a Real Problem." Telos 103:9-43. Session 4: Comparative populism Betz, Hans-Georg "The New Politics of Resentment: Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe." Comparative Politics 25(4): Greskovits, Bela "Demagogic Populism in Eastern Europe." Telos 102: Gidron, Noam and Bart Bonikowski Varieties of Populism: Literature Review and Research Agenda. Working Paper Series. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Unpublished working paper. Mudde, Cas and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. 2012b. "Exclusionary Vs. Inclusionary Populism: Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America." Government and Opposition 48(02): Session 5: Causes of populism Barr, R. R "Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics." Party Politics 15(1):

3 Enyedi, Zsolt "The Role of Agency in Cleavage Formation." European Journal of Political Research 44(5): Weyland, Kurt "Clarifying a Contested Concept: Populism in the Study of Latin American Politics." Comparative Politics 34(1):1-22. Session 6: Populist leadership and charisma Kalyvas, Andreas "Charismatic Politics and the Symbolic Foundations of Power in Max Weber." New German Critique 85: Merolla, J. L. and E. J. Zechmeister "The Nature, Determinants, and Consequences of Chavez's Charisma: Evidence from a Study of Venezuelan Public Opinion." Comparative Political Studies 44(1): Pappas, Takis S "Political Leadership and the Emergence of Radical Mass Movements in Democracy." Comparative Political Studies 41(8): van der Brug, Wouter and Anthony Mughan "Charisma, Leader Effects and Support for Right- Wing Populist Parties." Party Politics 13(1): Session 7: Presentation Session 8: Presentation Session 9: Rise of Populist discourse and its effects Brysk, Allison "Hearts and Minds: Bringing Symbolic Politics Back In." Polity 27(4): Jagers, Jan and Stefaan Walgrave "Populism as Political Communication Style: An Empirical Study of Political Parties' Discourse in Belgium." European Journal of Political Research 46(3): Rajacic, Agnes "Populist Construction of the Past and Future: Emotional Campaigning in Hungary between 2002 and 2006." East European Politics and Societies 21(4): Snow, David A., E. Burke Rochford, Steven K. Worden Jr. and Robert D. Benford "Frame Alignment Processes, Mictromobilization, and Movement Participation." American Sociological Review 51(4): Session 10: The populist voter: Biased beliefs and populist voter rationality? Akkerman, A., C. Mudde and A. Zaslove "How Populist Are the People? Measuring Populist Akkerman, A., C. Mudde and A. Zaslove "How Populist Are the People? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters." Comparative Political Studies. Bornschier, Simon Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right : The New Cultural Conflict in Western Europe. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Demertzis, Nikolas "Emotions and Populism." Pp in Emotion, Politics and Society, edited by S. Clarke, P. Hoggett and S. Thompson. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Ivarsflaten, E "What Unites Right-Wing Populists in Western Europe?: ReExamining Grievance Mobilization Models in Seven Successful Cases." Comparative Political Studies 41(1):3-23. PART II: POPULISM IN THE INTERWAR YEARS Session 11: European Populism in the interwar years Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe s Twentieth Century (London: Penguin, 1998), pp Roger Eatwell, Introduction: New Styles of Dictatorship and Leadership in Interwar Europe, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 7,2 (June 2006),

4 Session 12: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy Dick Greary, Hitler and Nazism 2nd ed. (London, Routledge, 2000), pp Richard Bessel, Political Violence and the Nazi Seizure of Power in Idem. ed., Life in the Third Reich 2nd ed. (Oxford: OUP, 2001), pp Alexander J. De Grand, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The Fascist Style of Rule 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2004), pp.25-32, Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism (London: Routledge, 1991), chapter 5. Session 13: Stalin and the Soviet Union Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (New York: Basic Books, 2010), pp Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford: OUP, 2000), pp. 1-15, 24-28, 35-39, Session 14: Populist movements and Authoritarianism in Latin America Joel Wolfe, Populism and Developmentalism A Companion to Latin American History Thomas H. Holloway, pp Federico Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, (2010), selected pages PART III: POPULISM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA Session 15: Contemporary Trends in American populist movements Judis, John The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics. Columbia Global Reports, Savage, Ritchie From McCarthyism to the Tea Party: Interpreting Anti-Leftist Forms of US Populism in Comparative Perspective, New Political Science, Volume 34, Number 4, December 2012 Chopra, Rohit ( 2016) Decoding Donald Trump The Temptations of Populist Democracy, Economic & Political Weekly EPW JANUARY 23, 2016 vol li no 4 Session 16: Populism in the case of France Rydgren, Jens. "France: The FRONT NATIONAL, Ethnonationalism and Populism." Twenty-first Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Print. Mayer, N. "From Jean-Marie to Marine Le Pen: Electoral Change on the Far Right." Parliamentary Affairs 66.1 (2012): Web. Session 17: Why populism in Greece and not Spain Elephantis, Angelos "Pasok and the Elections of 1977: The Rise of the Populist Movement." Pp in Greece at the Polls: The National Elections of 1974 and 1977, edited by H. R. Penniman. Washington, DC: American Entrerprise Institute for Public Policy. Errejón, Iñigo "Spain's Podemos: Inside View of a Radical Left Sensation." Retrieved 2014 ( Pappas, Takis S. 2014b. Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 4

5 Royo, S "Institutional Degeneration and the Economic Crisis in Spain." American Behavioural Scientist 58(12): Session 18: Presentation Session 19: Presentation PART IV: POPULIST MOVEMENTS IN THE SOUTH Session 20: Comparative Dimension of Populism within Latin America Hawkins, Kirk A Is Chavez Populist?: Measuring Populist Discourse in Comparative Perspective, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 42, pp. Hawkins, Kirk A Venezuela s Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Session 21: Venezuela under Chavez Stavrakakis, Yannis, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Giorgos Katsambekis, Nikos Nikisianis, and Thomas Siomos. "Contemporary Left-wing Populism in Latin America: Leadership, Horizontalism, and Postdemocracy in Chà vez's Venezuela." Latin American Politics and Society 58.3 (2016): Web. Posner, Paul W. "Laboring Under Chavez: Populism for the Twenty-first Century." Latin American Politics and Society 58.3 (2016): Wiley. Web. Session 22: Islamic populism Hadiz, Vedi A New Islamic Populism and the Contradictions of Development, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2014 Vol. 44, No. 1, , Kirdiş Esen and Drhimeurb, Amina The rise of populism? Comparing incumbent proislamic parties in Turkey and Morocco, Turkish Studies, 2016 VOL. 17, NO. 4, Halliday, Fred, (2001) The Iranian Revolution: Uneven Development and religious Populism, Journal of International Affairs. Fall82/Winter83, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p187. Hooglund, Eric (1992) Iranian Populism and Political Change in the Gulf, Middle East Report No. 174, Democracy in the Arab World (Jan. - Feb., 1992), pp Session 23: Populism in India Wyatt, Andrew (2012) Populism and politics in contemporary Tamil Nadu, Contemporary South Asia, 21:4, Subramanian, Narendra (2007) Populism in India, SAIS Review vol. XXVII no. 1 (Winter Spring 2007) Rajagopal, Arvind (2016) The Rise of Hindu Populism in India s Public Sphere, Current History; Philadelphia, (Apr 2016): Reddy, G Krishna (2002) New Populism and Liberalisation Regime Shift under Chandrababu Naidu in AP, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 9 (Mar. 2-8, 2002), pp

6 PART V: POPULISM AND DEMOCRACY Session 24: Populist democracies Corrales, Javier and Michael Penfold-Becerra "Venezuela: Crowding out the Opposition." Journal of Democracy 18(2): Corrales, Javier "Why Polarize? Advantages and Disadvantages of Rational-Choice Analysis of Government-Opposition Relations in Venezuela." Pp in The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chávez, edited by T. Ponniah and J. Eastwood. Kalyvas, Stathis N "Polarization in Greek Politics: Pasok's First Four Years, " Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 23(1): Pappas, Takis S "Populist Democracies: Post-Authoritarian Greece and Post-Communist Hungary." Government and Opposition 49(1):1-23 Session 25: Normative implications: Is populism a corrective or a threat to democracy? Abts, Koen and Stefan Rummens "Populism Versus Democracy." Political Studies 55(2): Canovan, Margaret "Taking Politics to the People: Populism as the Ideology of Democracy." Pp in Democracies and the Populist Challenge, edited by Y. Mény and Y. Surel. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Canovan, Margaret. "Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy." Political Studies 47.1 (1999): Web Krastev, Ivan "The Strange Death of the Liberal Consensus." Journal of Democracy 18(4): Session 26: Populist Discourse and dissatisfaction with Democracy Betz, Hans-Georg "Conditions Favoring the Success and Failure of Radical RightWing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies." Pp in Democracies and the Populist Challenge, edited by Y. Mény and Y. Surel. Houndmills: Palgrave. Kitschelt, Herbert "Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy: Populism and Party Systems." Pp in Democracies and the Populist Challenge, edited by Y. Mény and Y. Surel. Houndmills: Palgrave. Session 27: Populism and economic crisis. Cause, consequence, or both? Bale, Tim "Supplying the Insatiable Demand: Europe's Populist Radical Right." Government and Opposition 47(2): Dornbusch, Rudiger, and Sebastian Edwards. "The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America." (1991): n. pag. Web. Session 28: Review of the major themes in Populism 6