Comparing American and British Populism: Distinctive features and political implications

November 6, 2024November 6, 2024 Discipline: Political science

Question: Reflecting on our considerations of American and British populism, what (if anything) renders these cases so distinctive from one another. 


Sources to be utilized:
– Levitsky and Ziblatt, HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE (via Guardian) and online (via CSPAN) 
– Muller, “DONALD TRUMP’S USE OF THE TERM ‘THE PEOPLE’ IS A WARNING SIGN”, The Guardian, (January 24, 2017) 
– Krugman, STOP CALLING TRUMP A POPULIST, New York Times (August 2, 2018)
–  Hounshell, WHY AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES LOVE VICTOR ORBAN, New York Times (August 4, 2022) 
– Foer, POPULISM WILL SAVE THE DEMOCRATS, The Atlantic (video) 
– De Haro, THE NEXT POPULIST REVOLUTION, The Atlantic (September 2018) 
– Mounk, HOW LIBERALS CAN RECLAIM NATIONALISM, New York Times (March 3, 2018). 
– Applebaum, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY: THE SEDUCTIVE LURE OF AUTHORITARIANISM (2020), Chapter V 
– Bhambra, EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT BREXIT IS WRONG, Ted Talk (2017) Answer Bhambra’s question, “Where do we go from here and what constitutes an adequate perspective?”
 – Hamburger, CAN THERE BE A LEFT POPULISM, Jacobin (2018) 
– Applebaum, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY: THE SEDUCTIVE LURE OF AUTHORITARIANISM (2020), Chapter III (On Britain) suggested, IV (On Spain) required

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