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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of National Populism The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, a Pelican Book, written by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin and read by Matthew Goodwin. Â
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time the rise of national populism.Â
Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neoliberal economics. Many of these voters are turning to national populist movements, which have begun to change the face of Western liberal democracy, from the United States to France, Austria to the UK. Â
This radical turn, we are told, is a last howl of rage from an aging electorate on the verge of extinction. Their leaders are fascistic and their politics antidemocratic, their existence a sideshow to liberal democracy. Â
But this version of events, as Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin show, could not be further from the truth. Â
Written by two of the foremost experts on fascism and the rise of national populism, this lucid and deeply researched audiobook is a vital guide to our transformed political landscape. Challenging conventional wisdoms, Eatwell and Goodwin make a compelling case for serious, respectful engagement with the supporters and ideas of national populism - not least because it is a tide that won't be stemmed anytime soon.
PDF National Populism The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy A Pelican Book Audible Audio Edition Matthew Goodwin Roger Eatwell Penguin Books Ltd Books
"This book came up in a Quillette article and it sounded like it would be worthwhile reading. Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin show that the populist forces that have been upending the Western political world have a long history and they are a response to genuine concerns. At their best, they are like detectives explaining how the case unfolded; the clues were there and a person who saw them would not have been surprised by Brexit or Donald Trump's election. The authors note the four D's motivating people towards populist movements: Distrust of politicians and institutions, Destruction of the world as they knew it, Deprivation regarding their economic status, and De-alignment from mainstream parties. Eatwell and Goodwin provide a calm, sober analysis that helps a reader understand how candidates and parties which would have been regarded as "too out there" just a few years ago are becoming politically competitive. Some on the cosmopolitan left might be uncomfortable with the book but it can be recommended as a useful tool for explaining what is happening in the Western world."
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National Populism The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy A Pelican Book Audible Audio Edition Matthew Goodwin Roger Eatwell Penguin Books Ltd Books Reviews
- This book came up in a Quillette article and it sounded like it would be worthwhile reading. Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin show that the populist forces that have been upending the Western political world have a long history and they are a response to genuine concerns. At their best, they are like detectives explaining how the case unfolded; the clues were there and a person who saw them would not have been surprised by Brexit or Donald Trump's election. The authors note the four D's motivating people towards populist movements Distrust of politicians and institutions, Destruction of the world as they knew it, Deprivation regarding their economic status, and De-alignment from mainstream parties. Eatwell and Goodwin provide a calm, sober analysis that helps a reader understand how candidates and parties which would have been regarded as "too out there" just a few years ago are becoming politically competitive. Some on the cosmopolitan left might be uncomfortable with the book but it can be recommended as a useful tool for explaining what is happening in the Western world.
- This is a fair-minded book, let me stress, very well worth a read. But it is by fair-minded academics. It makes the case for National Populism in academic terms, on the plausible premise that NP is not modern fascism but an alternative form of democratic politics.
There is no reason to accept that premise, nor do I not find that case made, as the authors assert it would be, by the time I finished reading. One would need to write a book oneself fully to explain why, but two general points might set the ball rolling.
Leave aside the familiar point that ‘modern’ fascism would hardly adopt the style of past fascisms as this perennial tendency resurfaces in the 21st century. Fundamentally, there is no reason to accept the authors’ crucial contention that populism is a ‘thin’ ideology. Populism is better viewed as what it always was a method. On this, the book though giving examples of NP rhetoric, then passes on and over that rhetoric with a ‘however’ or a ‘but’ or inverted commas round the obvious objection to it. Yet its rhetoric is the violent heart of fascism, forever beckoning like the heartless Leaders who make this cruel politics chillingly their own. - The succinct summary of Paul Whelan above is as good a review of this book in the shortest amount of space as it is going to get. However, I feel he was too fair and generous in his rating so I have taken it down a little.
The authors point out that national populism is not a new phenomenon. They state that its rise is a response to the spread of liberal democracy. This is a tautology. The issues and emotions underlying national populism (adjusted to its time) have been around a lot longer than that but outside a democracy they are known as uprisings, revolts or revolutions (think Rome, Chartists, Lenin, Castro). The authors choose the US People's Party as their example, I think the only one cited, of a national populist movement. But that is a historical aberration as far as such movements are concerned. They had a platform of improvements they wanted to enact graduated income tax, shorter workweek, direct election of Senators. They were "for" something rather than "against"; and they were competing within the electoral structure.
In attempting to legitimize today's national populism as a benign movement, the authors do not examine whether those the authors identify as populists have formed their (subjective) views or have been goaded there. Of course everyone's view in a democracy - subjective or not - is valid. However, the national populist movements have been haunted throughout history by their connection with demagogues (think Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Chaves). Unfortunately that combination usually leads to a result where the people's problems are not only not solved but everyone winds up worse, sometimes much, much worse.
So the question unanswered in this book is whether the current populist movement in the US is more akin to the People's Party of the 1890's or movements which were prone to high-jacking by demagogues which can lead to anti-democratic movements. The current movement in the US is not close to the latter, yet. However, the authors' blindness to that possibility is what makes this book incomplete.
