Populism in Power Around the World

Kyle, Jordan; Gultchin, Limor

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“…This also resonates with the rhetoric of a strand of new right and populist leaders with whom Duterte currently shares the world stage. This strand of populism — also associated with Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro — has been described as ‘penal’ or ‘punitive’ (Curato, ; Kyle and Gultchin, ). It involves the political practice of courting votes by preying on citizens’ anxieties about security and safety, through the promotion of punitive short‐term solutions to address criminality, and often at the expense of respecting human rights.…”

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Change without Transformation: Social Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte

Ramos¹

2020

Development and Change

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This article explores social policy reforms championed by the Philippines’ strongman president Rodrigo Duterte during his first three years in office (2016–19), as a case for examining the transformative potential of social policy expansion under rising new right‐wing and authoritarian leaders. By showing how political economy and historico‐institutional conditions foreclose the transformative possibilities of the social policy changes effected by Duterte, the author offers a critique of current tendencies in global development discourses to treat all forms of social policy expansion as progressive. In the Philippines case, there is no progressive ideology guiding the reforms, nor are there political movements overseeing the expansion of social rights now inscribed in law. Rather, the reforms institutionally entrench a minimalist approach to universalism and strengthen the foothold of poverty targeting as an organizing principle of social provisioning. Social policy expansion under Duterte manifests aspects of the ‘dark side’ of social policy reforms during the current global political moment, including the use of such policy reforms to legitimize a conservative and authoritarian political order, and the functionality, across the political spectrum, of ‘narrow universalism’ — the type championed by international development agencies — which serves to deepen segmentation in social provisioning.

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Section: ‘The Punisher’ As Social Reformer?mentioning

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Change without Transformation: Social Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte

Ramos¹

2020

Development and Change

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“…The US Trump administration is amongst the recent growing number of governments drawing upon populist support to legitimize a more assertive nationalism in foreign affairs (Frantz, 2018; Kyle and Gultchin, 2018). This has intensified geoeconomic rivalries and fuelled geopolitical tensions more generally.…”

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“…The global economy and system are entering a critical phase. Populist nationalism is on the rise, fuelled largely by discontent over globalization’s distributional impacts and failure of conventional politics and markets to deliver on their promises (Kyle and Gultchin, 2018). An emerging economic superpower is disrupting the global order and its long incumbent power structures.…”

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Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?

Dent

2020

Competition & Change

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There are striking similarities between today’s early 21st century trade political economy and its late 19th century equivalent. Ascendant populist nationalism, escalating trade protectionism and tariff wars, growing discontent over globalization’s distributional impacts and fast emerging economic superpowers disrupting the global order are features shared by both periods. This comparative historical analysis explores what lessons and conclusions we may draw from the past late 19th century world that can be applied to today. Integral to this discussion are the prospects of our early 21st century world experiencing a similar endgame of global conflict, as transpired around a century ago. In revisiting the past to better understand the present and future, this paper first evaluates empirical similarities between the trade political economies of both periods. It then applies theories and concepts of economic nationalism, globalization and interdependence in developing deeper conclusions and arguments. Brexit, Trump and their historic parallels serve as primary focal points in this study.

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“…As alluded to earlier, the type of populism today is different than it was previously. Based on their research, Kyle and Gultchin (2018) divided populism into three categories: cultural populism, socio‐economic populism, and anti‐establishment populism. Today, cultural populism is more common than anti‐establishment populism.…”

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“…Even though we have had a fivefold increase in the number of populist leaders from 1990 to 2018 (Kyle & Gultchin, 2018), only 10% came from Muslim countries. Specifically, only Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Joko Widodo of Indonesia are considered populist Muslim leaders.…”

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Populism and Muslim democracies

Shukri

Smajljaj

2020

Asian Politics and Policy

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Populism has been on the rise from the United States to India. Populist leaders have used the veneer of a national crisis to legitimize a leadership that dignifies a section of the population over another. The strategy of cultural populists could lead to terrible consequences to those who may not subscribe to the political beliefs of the leaders. This article examines cultural populists in several Muslim democracies. Applying the method of agreement and method of difference together with calculation of the effective number of parties, this article analyzes the phenomenon of cultural populism in Indonesia, Malaysia and Tunisia. It is argued that political diversity in a democratic system encourages the rise of cultural populism. This paper adds to the growing literature on populism through a comparative analysis of Muslim democracies in Asia and elsewhere.

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Populism in Power Around the World

Cited by 116 publications

References 82 publications

Change without Transformation: Social Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte

Change without Transformation: Social Policy Reforms in the Philippines under Duterte

Brexit, Trump and trade: Back to a late 19th century future?

Populism and Muslim democracies

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