Lecture 22 Flashcards
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by a controlling government and the rejection of democracy, human rights, and political plurality involving the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo.
Populism
A political approach or ideology that seeks to appeal to ‘ordinary’ people in opposition to established ‘elites’ who are viewed as corrupt and/or not responsive. Common aspects include the belief that the system is unfair, fear of change, economic uncertainty, nationalism, opposition to globalization, the concept of political insiders vs. outsiders, and the defense of racial and gendered hierarchies. The three forms of poulism are cultural, socio-economic, and anti-establishment.
Nationalism
The political idealogy that emphasizes loyalty and devotion to a nation which is given sovereign statehood.
White Identity Politics
The idea that white people are becoming an endangered, discriminated-against group.
‘America’s Original Identity Politics’
A paper written by Sarah Churchwell in 2019 which argues that in the United States political, economic, and legal rights were only ever granted to some identity groups and not to others, meaning that every major event in US history was a direct consequence of identity
politics.
‘Death of Neoliberalism’
The concept, written by Martin Jacques in 2016, that argues that the dominance of Neoliberalism is collapsing due to its economic failures and that it is being replaced by populism.
Anti-globalism
A form of political thought that is critical of globalization and its effects. Right-wing anti-globalism is a form of populism that believes that the interests of the working class have been sacrificed in favor of the big corporations that have been encouraged to invest around the world and thereby deprive American workers of their jobs. Further, it argues that large-scale immigration has weakened the bargaining power of American workers and served to lower their wages.
Political tribalism
The increase of “us versus them” viewpoints in politics, characterized by one group’s claims of feeling threatened and voiceless being met by another group’s derision because it discounts their own feelings of persecution.
