Beyond populism and institutionalism: Anti‐populism and the management of austerity in Spain

Miró, Joan

doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12386

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“…This, in turn, can leave open the prospect of shifting the blame to other social group or to 'others', including immigrants or foreigners. The failure of successive neo-liberal policies to delivery prosperity, the resulting public disaffection, and the fading of the re-distributive role of the state under austerity has played an important role in the rise of right populism [45][46][47][48] and provides a fertile ground for its spread [49], although it has also galvanised new leftist movements in Spain and Greece [24,50]. Austerity is also linked to the civil protest of the gilets jaunes in France against benefit reductions and tax increases [51].…”

Section: Austeritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism, Austerity and Governance for Sustainable Development in Troubled Times: Introduction to Special Issue

Baker

Quinn

2022

Sustainability

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The sustainable development imaginary was built on a belief in co-operation, collaboration and consensus building and requires governance approaches that rely upon the values of a liberal, pluralistic, tolerant, and democratic society. Much scholarship assumed that the European Post-War, welfare, democratic order, with its emerging educated classes, would steadily progress towards an ever more refined and articulated version of these governance values. However, that governance imaginary has become increasingly deradicalised, focused instead on economic efficiency and technocracy. Our current ‘troubled times’ have now seen the rise of right populism and the imposition of austerity policies in Europe. Against this background, six key characteristics of sustainable development are examined through a governance lens—limits to growth, equity, inclusion, reflexivity, participation, and international solidarity—showing how right populism and austerity have further reshaped ideas about how to govern for sustainable development. Right populism and austerity have constrained both the narratives and tools available, while shrinking the political space for co-operation, reflection, and learning, poorly reflecting the governance values thought necessary to achieve an equitable and environmentally sustainable future. This has been further seen in the contested governance of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies designed to ensure post-Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic economic recovery.

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Section: Austeritymentioning

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Populism, Austerity and Governance for Sustainable Development in Troubled Times: Introduction to Special Issue

Baker

Quinn

2022

Sustainability

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“…That is, they develop a collective identity based not on the specific content of their individual demands, but on their common rejection of the elite establishment, which they see "as having betrayed the public trust" (Bonikowski & Gidron, 2016, p. 1596. Populism thus tends to have an anti-institutional character, a rejection of institutions such as representative government, independent media, bureaucracies-anything that moderates the direct expression of the will of the people (Brubaker, 2017;Miró, 2019;Molyneux & Osborne, 2017). Laclau (2005) argues that the construction of the populist identity-of "the people"-is based on a logic of equivalence, whereby the groups in the populist camp come to see their various demands as fundamentally the same.…”

Section: Populism As Political Logic and Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Education populism? A corpus-driven analysis of Betsy DeVos’s education policy discourse

Cohen

2021

EPAA

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Scholars of political economy have raised the question of whether recent populist movements around the world signal the decline of neoliberal hegemony. What would such a decline mean for education policy, an arena that has been dominated by a neoliberal common sense for several decades? This study investigates the policy discourse of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, in order to assess the extent to which it aligns with the neoliberal common sense or draws upon discourses of populism that have been gaining traction in the last few years. Using methods of corpus linguistics, I engage in a critical discourse analysis of 59 of DeVos’s public speeches delivered between 2017 and 2019 in comparison with a reference corpus of speeches delivered by DeVos’s predecessors in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. The findings, informed by Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism as political logic and discourse, suggest that DeVos deploys several features of populist discourse even as she advocates policies that are characteristically neoliberal. I consider the implications of this discourse for education policy in the US.

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“…Alternatively, mainstream parties can wait until the populists get discredited when they disillusion voters by failing to provide results or keep their promises (Aslanidis & Rovira Kaltwasser, 2016;Damiani, 2020;Taguieff, 2014). As for the studies that more explicitly discuss 'anti-populism', they have shown that it consists in constructing populism as an irresponsible behavior and a political anomaly or disease (Karavasilis, 2017;Miró, 2019;Mouffe, 2005;Revelli, 2015;Stavrakakis, 2014). Therefore, the adjective 'populist' is often used by anti-populists to discredit a party, movement or politician that claims to defend the people and the idea of popular sovereignty.…”

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A “stylistic anti-populism”: an analysis of the Sardine movement’s opposition to Matteo Salvini in Italy

Hamdaoui

2021

Social Movement Studies

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This article analyzes the Italian movement of the Sardines that emerged in November 2019 as a reaction to the Lega, the radical right populist party led by Matteo Salvini. On the one hand, it shows that the movement was born out of the incapacity of Italian political parties to articulate an anti-populist response. On the other hand, it demonstrates that the movement was an expression of stylistic anti-populism. As such, the role of the Sardines was to promote a respectful and kind language, the physical mobilization of citizens that contrasted with Salvini's massive use of social media and defend the idea that politics is a complex issue.

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Beyond populism and institutionalism: Anti‐populism and the management of austerity in Spain

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Populism, Austerity and Governance for Sustainable Development in Troubled Times: Introduction to Special Issue

Populism, Austerity and Governance for Sustainable Development in Troubled Times: Introduction to Special Issue

Education populism? A corpus-driven analysis of Betsy DeVos’s education policy discourse

A “stylistic anti-populism”: an analysis of the Sardine movement’s opposition to Matteo Salvini in Italy

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