TY  - GEN
T1  - A political science manifesto for the age of populism : challenging growth, markets, inequality and resentment
A1  - Ricci, David M.
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781108785440
AB  - Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalization, and the rise of temporary jobs - all breeding resentment. Rather than dwelling on symptoms, Ricci focuses on the root of our nation's problems. Thus, creative destruction, aiming at perpetual economic growth, encouraged by neoliberalism, creates the economic inequality that fuels resentment and leads to increased populism. Ricci urges political scientists to highlight this destruction meaningfully and substantively, to use empirical realism to put human beings back into politics. Ricci's sensible argument conveys a sense of political urgency, grappling with real-world problems and working to transform abstract speculations into tangible, useful tools. The result is a passionate book, important not only to political scientists, but to an
OP  - 245
NO  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020).
CN  - JK275 .R53 2020
SN  - 9781108785440 (ebook)
SN  - 9781108479424 (hardback)
SN  - 9781108743051 (paperback)
SN  - 9781108479424
KW  - United States : Politics and government : 21st century.
KW  - Populism : United States : History : 21st century.
ER  -