Presentation Year

2019

Depreciated Participant

John Ferdon Political Science & Philosophy Undergraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Conventional wisdom in academia and media often paint recent challenges to liberal democratic  norms and institutions as a a result of “populism”. In this lenses, the anti-pluralistic, and tribalistic  tendencies of the demos, or people, of a political community challenge the ‘liberal’ element of  liberal democracy. In this project I challenge this conventional wisdom, and argue that such an  analysis does not take into account the ​causes​ of the what is referred to as ‘populism’’. To  understand the causes, I argue that we must take a look at the cultural, political and economic  changes that have been unfolding since the late seventies.

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Yes

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