Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective

Christian F. Rostbøll

Populism and Publicity: The Participant Perspective

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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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	1 sep. 2019
Antal sider	24
Status	Udgivet - 1 sep. 2019
Begivenhed	American Political Science Association Annual Meeting - Washington DC, USA Varighed: 29 aug. 2019 → 1 sep. 2019

Konference

Konference	American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Land/Område	USA
By	Washington DC
Periode	29/08/2019 → 01/09/2019

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