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On this week’s Policy Forum Pod, we’re taking a close look at populism – what it is, why it’s such a big deal, and how it’s leaving its mark on our political landscape.
From the corridors of Brussels to the streets of New Delhi, populist politics have swept through democracies around the globe. But despite all the headlines, is this wave of populism particularly new? And should we see it as a symptom of democracy in decay, or rather as a welcome sign that politics is returning to the people? On this week’s podcast, hosts Nicky Lovegrove and Sara Bice hear from Duncan McDonnell, Jill Sheppard and Paul Kenny about populism in Europe, Asia, and Australia – with due mention to one particularly powerful populist leader sitting in the White House. Listen here: https://aca.st/40ec85
Professor Duncan McDonnell is Professor of Politics in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. His main research interests are political parties, populism, and Euroscepticism.
Dr Jill Sheppard is a political scientist at the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on why people participate in politics, what opinions they hold and why, and how both are shaped by political institutions and systems.
Dr Paul Kenny is a Fellow and Head of the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. His research covers several areas of comparative politics including the political economy of populism, corruption, and immigration.
Show notes | The following were referred to in this episode:
Populism and Patronage: Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond by Paul Kenny
Swedish model beckons for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael: Duncan McDonnell opinion piece in the Irish Times
Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime: Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz. University of Warwick Working Paper series.
For future’s sake…! by Ian Chubb
Lies, damn lies, and the Global Financial Crisis by Quentin Grafton
Cooler heads, calmer waters by Michele Miller
The Executive Master of Public Policy offered by Crawford School and convened by Sara Bice.
Policy Forum Pod is available on iTunes, Stitcher, and wherever you get your podcasts. We’d love to hear your feedback for this podcast series! Send in your questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes to podcast@policyforum.net. You can also Tweet us @APPSPolicyForum or find us on Facebook.
This episode of Policy Forum Pod was written and produced by Nicky Lovegrove and Martyn Pearce. It was edited by Martyn Pearce.
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Parasite Establishment Academics will never understand and advocate for populism.
follow up/explainer to previous comment:
I mostly refers to Academics in the fake social ‘sciences’. The exceptions to the above are those involved in physical sciences and technical areas.
Academics in Social Sciences, like Sociology and Studies, are a Brahman/Priestly class that complement the elites of Global Corporate Capital. Priestly classes have always helped elites through ideological control of the masses – some things never change. These Academics see themselves as ‘Guardians’ with exclusive access to esoteric knowledge which grants them authority to lecture to the Plebs. They will never understand populism as they are stuck in self-reinforced echo chambers/Ivory Towers which increase their social status and intellectual elitism. They will never advocate for populism because under populism such fake guardians as themselves are resented and discarded.
Despite appearances, supposedly ‘left-wing’ academics benefit the Establishment and Capitalism, not those who are supposedly disenfranchised.
These social engineering Academics are involved in projects like ‘diversity’ and ‘multiculturalism’ which indirectly promote consumerism, mass immigration, open borders and free trade. Their targets are the traditional family and gender roles, ethnic homogeneity and national community sentiment as these are all obstacles to Globalism, profit growth through consumer importation (aka immigration) and the dominance of consumerism.
Where they supposedly address ‘social justice’ that just means giving more money to unproductive people so they can increase their consumerism. There are no genuinely ‘Far Left’ academics who want a Proletariat Revolution. They are all middle-class bugmen now, involved in guiding the Managerial Class and fueling the individualism, gibs-seeking and consumerism of young people and foreigners.