Talk:<\/p>\n
\u201cAuthoritarian Populism as Rightwing Countermovement: Policy Heterogeneity, Deinstitutionalisation and Plunder in Turkey\u201d<\/p>\n
by<\/p>\n
Dr. Ali Burak G\u00fcven, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London<\/p>\n
a.guven@bbk.ac.uk<\/p>\n
Abstract: This paper develops an analytical framework to understand emergent authoritarian populisms around the world by building on the Polanyian concept of \u201cdouble movement.\u201d It contends that such projects constitute \u201ccountermovements of the right\u201d in the same mould as the fascist experiments of interwar Europe that followed the first era of market-driven international integration. Broadly similar to interwar fascisms, today\u2019s authoritarian populisms combine palliative interventions to address the distributive strains of globalist market expansion with an illiberal agenda riding on the identity politics of the ethno-religious majority. They often employ three devices: a built-in pragmatism to interlace a wide range of policy programmes; state restructuring to maximise executive autonomy; and cross-class coalitions to cultivate loyalty while maintaining a degree of social cohesion. The paper uses Turkey, patient zero of contemporary authoritarian populisms, to illustrate how these devices can grow ever more destructive when they fail to generate a viable economic model and authoritarianism takes hold. As Erdo\u011fan\u2019s \u201cneoliberal populism\u201d evolved into an authoritarian project in the past decade, policy pragmatism was reduced to extreme policy heterogeneity, state restructuring culminated in deinstitutionalisation, and coalition-building degenerated into levels of clientelism and cronyism leading to flagrant waste and open plunder of public resources.<\/p>\n
Author bio: Ali Burak G\u00fcven is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London, where he directs the MSc programme in Global Political Economy. He writes on the international and comparative political economy of development, in particular on multilateral organisations and Turkish political economy.<\/p>\n
Room Info: A-130<\/p>\n
Monday, May 29, 2023, 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talk: \u201cAuthoritarian Populism as Rightwing Countermovement: Policy Heterogeneity, Deinstitutionalisation and Plunder in Turkey\u201d by Dr. Ali Burak G\u00fcven, Senior Lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London a.guven@bbk.ac.uk Abstract: This paper develops an analytical framework to understand emergent authoritarian populisms [\u2026] <\/p>\n