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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
wiley   +1 more source

Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy [PDF]

The authors investigate the theoretical effects of lobbying and pressure group activities on both economic efficiency and on equity. Looking at lobbying as a political activity that takes place alongside production, they find that lobbies may generate ...
Campante, Felipe R., Ferreira, Francisco G.H.   +1 more
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Masters and Slaves in Empty Spain: A Philosophical–Political Reading of Rural Depopulation

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural depopulation in Spain reveals not only demographic decline but also the persistence of unequal power structures. Drawing on the classical elite theories of Pareto, Mosca, and Michels, alongside Hegel's master–slave dialectic, this article offers a socio‐philosophical and political interpretation of the phenomenon.
Leandro Sebastián Fervier, Victoria Sanagustín‐Fons   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hindu Political Thought and Plato’s View of Democracy in Indonesia

Jurnal Review Politik
Politics is a main pillar in national life, but political practices in Indonesia often deviate from public orientation and favor the interests of the oligarchy. This condition reveals a gap between the political ideal as a means of serving the people and
I Made Gede Nesa Saputra
doaj   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Political Translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive by Nicole Doerr (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2018
In Political Translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive, Nicole Doerr uncovers the role of translators as a “third voice within deliberation,” neither participants nor facilitators but advocates for specific individuals to be heard and ...
Peter Levine
doaj   +2 more sources

Transformations of democracy and the problem of wealth: some remarks on oligarchy and the Czech case

Filosofický časopis
There are many signs that our democracies are undergoing a transformation: populism, an erosion of civic participation in political parties, to replace citizens’ decision- making with expert knowledge, and the growing power of super-wealthy people ...
Lánský, Ondřej
doaj   +1 more source

Peronism as a model of social and political development: The modern Argentinian myth [PDF]

Međunarodni Problemi, 2014
The subject of the analysis in this paper is the study of the emergence and evolution of the phenomenon of Peronism as the most important political movement and ideology in Argentina and perhaps in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
Krstić Zoran
doaj   +1 more source

Political and Institutional Development in England

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the political and institutional development of England from the Magna Carta to the Glorious Revolution. I argue that institutional change in this period is best understood through the lens of coalition formation. Political elites had heterogeneous preferences over first two, and then three, recurring axes of disagreement ...
Mark Koyama
wiley   +1 more source