Week 11: Nationalism and Populism

Week 11. (1) Internal Nationalism, National Solidarity, and Patriotism. (2) National Self-Determination and Liberation. (3)

Populism as Ideology

Populist Ideology: The Virtuous People vs. the Corrupt Elites

"The People Are Alone the Legitimate Source of

Power; Their Authority Is Affirmed When Justice Is Done, and Is Lost In Arbitrary Government."

(From a Tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires)

Poster on the streets of downtown Buenos Aires, January 2016

Andrew Heywood, “Nationalism,” Political Ideologies, pp. 143-174

David Miller, “National Self-Determination,” On Nationality, pp. 81-118

Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, "Populism," Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, pp. 493-512

Internal nationalist parties

Front National (France), UK Independence Party (describes its ideology as civic nationalism), Alternative fuer Deutschland (Germany); Freedom Party of Austria (nationalist classical liberals), Party for Freedom (Netherlands; nationalist classical liberals focused on Islam),

So you'd like to see an internal nationalist outlook on the world...

UKIP Daily, Nations Presse Info (Front National)

So you'd like to know more about the commonalities among the ideologies of the Front National, UKIP, Alternative fuer Deutschland, and the Trump movement

Check out Charlotte Cavaille et al, "Trumpism as a Transatlantic Phenomenon," The American Prospect (a social liberal magazine)

So you'd like to know more about patriotism as an ideology...

Igor Primoratz, "Patriotism," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

So you'd like to know more about national self-determination...

Check out "The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975" dir. Goran Hugo Olsson

Tarek Osman, "The Rise and Fall of Arab Nationalism," Episode 2 of The Making of the Modern Arab World (BBC, 2013)

Frantz Fanon, "Mutual Foundations for National Culture and Freedom Struggles," The Wretched of the Earth, pp. 170-181

Tommie Shelby, "Black Power Nationalism," We Who Are Dark: Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Belknap Press, 2005): 101-135.

Michael C. Dawson, "Visions of a Black Nation: Black Nationalism and African-American Political Thought," Black Visions, pp. 85-134.

So you'd like to know more about the structure of nationalism as an ideology...

John Plamenatz, "Two Types of Nationalism," in Nationalism: The Nature and Evolution of an Idea, ed. Eugene Kamenka (ANU Press, 1973): 23-36.

Michael Freeden, "Is Nationalism a Distinct Ideology?" Liberal Languages (Princeton UP, 2004): 204-224

Bernard Yack, Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community (UChicago Press, 2012)

So you'd like to know more about the populism in Trump's (or Bernie's) campaign platform...

Check out this analysis from the hybrid traditional conservative-libertarian perspective of Tucker Carlson. (On why Trump is a populist)

Or this from populism scholar Cas Mudde on Trump and Bernie's populism. (On why they aren't populists)

And this report from the NYTimes on Trump voters' response to Republican elites' call to defeat the Trump campaign.