Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective

Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearch

Standard

Populism and Publicity : The Participant Perspective. / Rostbøll, Christian F.

2019. 1-24 Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States.

Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearch

Harvard

Rostbøll, CF 2019, 'Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective', Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States, 29/08/2019 - 01/09/2019 pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2019-hdx7q

APA

Rostbøll, C. F. (2019). Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective. 1-24. Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2019-hdx7q

Vancouver

Rostbøll CF. Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective. 2019. Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2019-hdx7q

Author

Rostbøll, Christian F. / Populism and Publicity : The Participant Perspective. Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, United States.24 p.

Bibtex

@conference{4e7b38e1e45741f99fa3c2e78d5fcdf1,
title = "Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective",
abstract = "It is common to ask whether populism is a threat or a corrective to democracy. In the empirical literature, the conclusion tends to be that it is both. Some normative accounts, most notably those of Laclau and Mouffe, promote populism because of its alleged ability to deepen and recover democracy. Both of these strands of the literature are inhibited by an observer perspective, which means that they evaluate populism as a phenomenon that affects democracy from the outside rather than as an alternative set of ideas about democracy. This paper proposes an alternative approach to populism, which uses the publicity condition first suggested by Kant and later expounded by Rawls. The publicity condition entails taking a participant perspective, where you regard yourself as involved with plural others in a common enterprise of deliberation, choice, and action. While the observer considers the causes and effects of different doctrines in order to explain, manipulate and/or exploit political practice, the participant asks whether we could make a doctrine our own, as something we would want to promote for others and ourselves, as well as use to assess the health of our democracy.",
keywords = "Faculty of Social Sciences, Democracy, populism, publicity, participant perspective, Kant, Laclau, Mouffe, Rawls",
author = "Rostb{\o}ll, {Christian F.}",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.33774/apsa-2019-hdx7q",
language = "English",
pages = "1--24",
note = "null ; Conference date: 29-08-2019 Through 01-09-2019",

}

RIS

TY - CONF

T1 - Populism and Publicity

AU - Rostbøll, Christian F.

PY - 2019/9/1

Y1 - 2019/9/1

N2 - It is common to ask whether populism is a threat or a corrective to democracy. In the empirical literature, the conclusion tends to be that it is both. Some normative accounts, most notably those of Laclau and Mouffe, promote populism because of its alleged ability to deepen and recover democracy. Both of these strands of the literature are inhibited by an observer perspective, which means that they evaluate populism as a phenomenon that affects democracy from the outside rather than as an alternative set of ideas about democracy. This paper proposes an alternative approach to populism, which uses the publicity condition first suggested by Kant and later expounded by Rawls. The publicity condition entails taking a participant perspective, where you regard yourself as involved with plural others in a common enterprise of deliberation, choice, and action. While the observer considers the causes and effects of different doctrines in order to explain, manipulate and/or exploit political practice, the participant asks whether we could make a doctrine our own, as something we would want to promote for others and ourselves, as well as use to assess the health of our democracy.

AB - It is common to ask whether populism is a threat or a corrective to democracy. In the empirical literature, the conclusion tends to be that it is both. Some normative accounts, most notably those of Laclau and Mouffe, promote populism because of its alleged ability to deepen and recover democracy. Both of these strands of the literature are inhibited by an observer perspective, which means that they evaluate populism as a phenomenon that affects democracy from the outside rather than as an alternative set of ideas about democracy. This paper proposes an alternative approach to populism, which uses the publicity condition first suggested by Kant and later expounded by Rawls. The publicity condition entails taking a participant perspective, where you regard yourself as involved with plural others in a common enterprise of deliberation, choice, and action. While the observer considers the causes and effects of different doctrines in order to explain, manipulate and/or exploit political practice, the participant asks whether we could make a doctrine our own, as something we would want to promote for others and ourselves, as well as use to assess the health of our democracy.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Democracy

KW - populism

KW - publicity

KW - participant perspective

KW - Kant

KW - Laclau

KW - Mouffe

KW - Rawls

U2 - 10.33774/apsa-2019-hdx7q

DO - 10.33774/apsa-2019-hdx7q

M3 - Paper

SP - 1

EP - 24

Y2 - 29 August 2019 through 1 September 2019

ER -

ID: 227536448