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Anti-establishment
Anti-establishment refers to a movement or attitude that opposes the traditional or established social, political, or cultural norms and values. It is often associated with rebellious or countercultural movements that challenge the status quo and seek to bring about change or reform. The term has been used throughout history to describe various movements and individuals who have challenged authority and the prevailing order.
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eBook - PDFThe Post-Partisans
Anti-Partisans, Anti-Establishment Identifiers, and Apartisans in Latin America
- Carlos Meléndez(Author)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Cambridge University Press(Publisher)
In the case of apartisanships, the survey measures apprehend the extension of political apathy under contexts of acute pressures over the political establishments. By analyzing the ideological and sociodemographic characteristics of anti- establishment identifiers and apartisans, it is possible to better understand pressures over the establishments or their collapses. In the cases of Honduras and Argentina, the applications of the measurements were during the contexts of decisive national elections: in December 2017– January 2018 in Honduras, just after the General Elections held in November 2017; and in October 2019, a month before the first-round presidential elections in Argentina. Electoral timing might undercount individuals categorized as Anti-establishment identifiers, since elections encourage them to think about their political preferences. However, the proposed multi-item measurement intends to capture consistent party loyalties rather than mere voting preferences. Therefore, it reduces the impact of electoral contexts on partisan classifications. Moreover, anti- establishment sentiments and apathy have not vanished under electoral contexts. In the next sub-sections, I explore specific contextual factors associated with the shaping of Anti-establishment identifiers and with the differentiation from apartisans in each of the four cases studied. 42 Politics and Society in Latin America 3.2.1 Chile After the return to democracy, two political coalitions have shared political power in Chile. Presidential candidates from the left-wing coalition (Concertación/Nueva Mayoría) have won five of the seven elections since 1989 (the first four consecutively, from 1989 to 2005), and the right-wing coalition (Alianza/Chile Vamos) have won the remaining two, both in ballotage and both with the same candidate, Sebastián Piñera.
eBook - ePub- Vittorio Mete(Author)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Taylor & Francis(Publisher)
The meanings that this concept refers to, which are partly shared with other concepts, are: hostility towards the political profession, political parties, representative institutions etc. The empirical referents of such meanings are, among others: feelings of hostility towards political parties and politicians expressed by citizens; the forms of conduct that reveal such hostility (such as abstentionism, supporting anti-party parties and anti-political politicians, or protesting against mainstream politics); and the symbolic gestures and discourse of political leaders as they distance themselves from traditional forms of politics. As seen above, an overview of the literature also reveals other concepts, once again denoted by the term “anti-politics”, which however indicate a series of completely different meanings and empirical referents, such as political opposition to authoritarian regimes or “anti-political machines” in developing countries. Figure 1.4 offers a simple graphical breakdown of the concept of anti-politics and of other concepts closely linked to it. Figure 1.4 The concept of anti-politics Figure 1.4 Long Description Antipolitics includes the concepts of antipoliticians, antiestablishment, and antiparty. Populism overlaps antipolitics. Opposition and resistance in authoritarian regimes, Antipolitical machines in developing countries, and Dethrone and banish politics; conquest and colonize politics are outside the realm of antipolitics. Among the various possible configurations of a concept presented by Sartori (1984, p. 47), the concept of anti-politics appears to be the most problematic, given that the corresponding term is characterised by synonyms, homonyms and uncertain semantic overlapping. Even in such circumstances, Sartori invites the reader not to give in to the reigning chaos, and to try to clarify the concept in question
eBook - ePubMe the People
How Populism Transforms Democracy
- Nadia Urbinati(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Harvard University Press(Publisher)
7 The populist polemic against “the establishment” is meant to put political parties on trial. It is meant not to reclaim the primacy of the sovereign people over its parts but rather to establish that only one part of the people is the legitimate sovereign.How should we evaluate the antiestablishment claim in normative terms? Similar to established parties, populist “movements” compete for seats in parliaments or congress and seek majorities. But they are not viewed as established parties, either by their critics or by their supporters. What makes them different, given that in running for office they risk becoming the establishment in their turn? These are the questions that guide my reading of populism as a project to substitute the whole with one of its parts. In order to dissect the various ambiguities that are connected to the dialectic between the part(s) and the whole (the people), I suggest that we study the crowded populist constellation of antis (antielitism, antipartyism, antipartisanship, anti-intellectualism) as displays of one central anti—antiestablishmentarianism. This is the paradigm that makes populism a political theology, and one that turns the constitutional power of party democracy into a new order that is truly party-kratic (that is, the power of a part). The exclusionary logic of the establishment casts light on the conundrum of populism: for populism, though it is critical of party democracy, creates parties; and though it is critical of representative democracy, it does not promote direct democracy but instead pushes for a new kind of representation, one that is based on a direct relation uniting the people and its leader.8 As we shall see in subsequent chapters, populists use elections as a celebration of “their people” set up by the victory of that people’s champion. And they use the support of the audience (which they orchestrate carefully and endlessly) to “purify” elections of their quantitative and formalistic character. Their goal is to fill the gap between the outside and the inside of the state and, in so doing, to deliver on the promise of getting rid of the establishment forever. To attain this, populists in power construct a new form of popular sovereignty that enhances inclusiveness (of their supporters) at the expense of the open game of contestation of, and competition for, power—in short, at the expense of the two conditions that make for constitutional democracy. Certainly, these tradeoffs “are not inevitable.”9
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