Right-wing Populism in Europe and the USA and the Grounds of Its Formation

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

The success of the right wing populists in Europe and the USA, the left wing populists in Latin America and the populist leaders of parties and different movements in all over the world indicates that populism has once again returned in the spotlight of the contemporary politics. Its main idea is based on the claim of the representation of people or operating in the name of people as the ordinary people or the mass and the contrast with elites, the deep-seated organization or the power block. The political discourse of populism is made by the dualism of “us” and “them”. Here, populism is not an ideology, but a political logic that is a kind of thinking about politics. Specially, the ground of the formation of the new populism- such as the right wing populists in Europe and Northern America- has a connection with the widespread phenomenon of liberal globalization that has special and wide economic, social and cultural features. The scientific scrutiny of this phenomenon and paying attention to its roots is necessary as the first step for the understanding of populism in these countries. The current research, alongside the reading of the theoretical concepts of populism, studies the populism in Europe and the U.S.A and its features, and tries partly to show the background of its formation in these countries.

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