Populism and Its Causes

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6 жыл бұрын

On March 23, Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University; HLS Professor Matthew C. Stephenson and Ruth L. Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; discussed populism and its causes, as part of the Human Rights in a Time of Populism conference held at HLS on March 23-24. HLS Professor Gerald L. Neuman moderated.

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@visicircle 5 жыл бұрын

Ruth L. Okediji makes a great point on the importance of values. No amount of money will help end political polarization if the population has poor ethical sensibilities.

@maxheadrom3088 Жыл бұрын

Behavioral economics reached some results that show some ammount of money will help end political polarization.

@patrickvernon4766 6 ай бұрын

They are more concerned of defending against populism than fixing any issue

@nooked23 Жыл бұрын

Populism and its causes: repeated failure of the incumbent government regime or administration to address the problems of the majority of people. The end. Can I get a doctorate?

@SS-qk8oc 2 ай бұрын

populism noun • a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups

@coolworx 4 жыл бұрын

The arrogant condescension is strong in these mofos.

@maxheadrom3088 Жыл бұрын

Prof. Stephenson knows the main prosecutor that worked on the Lava Jato (Car Wash) operation, Deltan Dalagnol, in Brazil. Judge Sergio Moro studied the Italian operations and there was a care for not destroying the political system but here something really weird happened: because former Pres. Lula was arrested, good and honest people started attacking the operation. Lula and his party, PT, seized upon the situation and employed betrayal over a important center left candidate, Ciro Gomes, to guarantee the incompetent populist Bolsonaro would win. This was recorded in March/2018 and our elections are in October. Now it's 2022 and guess what? Lula's strategy worked and he's likely to win the dispute over Bolsonaro and, by doing that, will contribute to destroy the center-left leadership and foster new right wing populist leaders. Prof. Stephenson's diagnostic is very good, btw. (based what happened in Brazil since 2018)

@meghkalyanasundaram8720 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thank you for sharing. Ref: ~@22:30 Is pitting cosmopolitanism against traditional values too simplistic a binary and hence part of the problem? This kind of binary labeling, in my opinion, perhaps hardly helps: for one, it is flawed, especially when certain "traditions" turn out to be more "cosmopolitan", in some ways, than a subsequent "modern". The actual binary should have been cosmopolitan and not cosmopolitan. The moment a temporal quality is attributed to the opposite of cosmopolitan, it is likely to, in my opinion, give room to intellectual imperialism which creates resentment in people.

@marlenesoifer7219 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou

@marlenesoifer7219 2 жыл бұрын

HOPE I UNDERSTAND THIS

@marlenesoifer7219 2 жыл бұрын

Your talking about northeastern Africa

@maxheadrom3088 Жыл бұрын

Good point. I think what he talks about when he mentions the 'values cleavage' and 'post-materialism' is related to observations made firstly by insurance companies and later by advertisement/marketing people. They detected some vertical across socioeconomic levels groups identified with their values (self-actualizers, experimentalists, etc). That created a separation between the groups that fit the values model and people who had a more "traditional" (older) model shaped by socioconomic levels. Those who fit the values system tend to be more individualistic than those who fit the socioeconomic level system. Perhaps that's why the traditional group falls for populism: the sense of comunity and the fear that the whole group will fall into he pit they see (much more than the "cosmopolitan" group, btw). For a democracy, cosmopolitan or not cosmopolitan is much less important than being self-centered or society-focused. The neo-liberal economic system is based on "individual freedom" and "selfishness" diminishing the value of social (my neighbors, the people I see every day) awareness. Remember Thatcher claimming there's no society, only individuals and Reagan saying (paraphrased) "for the lack of a better word, 'greed' is good". That idea, more than the negative economic results, destroyed or seriously damaged most democracies - it blinded people to the condition others live in and fostered the polarization we live in nowadays. Like you, I also think the resentment was created by the "intellectual" imperialism. (a kind of dishonest itellectual exercise, btw, and that's why I wrote between quotation marks). BTW, Michael Sandel has been warning about this since the 1990s.

@marlenesoifer7219 2 жыл бұрын

Sure

@maxheadrom3088 Жыл бұрын

Populism is negative. Panis et circensis, in Rome, is one of the oldest example. Populism (9:00) in Latin America has always had, besides the point made by the Professor, panis et circensis - pleasing immediate desires of the population avoiding the political cost of doing structural change.

@MrDvdwilliamsIII 18 күн бұрын

Populism is the very appentative activity of all Science's ... and Theological scribe solidifying sentient existence The very perpetrator's of a bolstered savoir-faire balance is .., the egregious greed of the few, parading such paradoxes ... as this panel to narrate complicated disparities ... intrinsically justifying why you should wait for accolades ... in an after life, whereas the few should capitalise in present time!

@SS-qk8oc 2 ай бұрын

No one cares about politics if the economics is good.

@TheFMBBCBM Жыл бұрын

Deus pátria família liberdade Bolsonaro o melhor presidente do Brasil e do mundo inteiro!

@SS-qk8oc 2 ай бұрын

G-d, family, country, freedom?!!? What a fascist! Wait, actually those sound like good things…but, what do I know? This guy CLEARLY understands things better than me…. Good thing our elitists are so good at managing us plebes.

@MidnightRambler 5 жыл бұрын

Anti illegal migrants. Not anti migrants

@user-tx5vr2lu6e 3 жыл бұрын

US isn't centre of the world. In European countries, right wing populist parties call for more restrictions on all immigration.

@Fabrizio_Ruffo 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-tx5vr2lu6e I don't think the hordes literally washing ashore in Europe and Australia are any different from the US. Legal immigration, as previously agreed upon, not unlimited amnesty to all peoples of the world.

@MidnightRambler 5 жыл бұрын

Populism? U mean democracy

@visicircle 5 жыл бұрын

'democracy' when it agrees with the establishment's narrative. 'populism' when it runs counter

@niccuniccuniccu 5 жыл бұрын

@@visicircle you have neither, what you have is a oligarchy.

@visicircle 5 жыл бұрын

@@niccuniccuniccu Yup.

@denisdaly1708 2 жыл бұрын

Populism leads to fascism