Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

S. Kates, E. Manning, T. Mendelberg, O. Wasow - Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base

Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base. This study demonstrates the importance of studying both non-wealthy and wealthy Americans, the group who give the most but whose individual behavior has been studied the least.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/plutopopulism-wealth-and-trumps-financial-base/04A0071D849FBC3E1DEEB2962A6B977F

Jacques Rancière - Dividing Time. Reflections on the Practice of an Amateur Historian

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-YudAz8CJg&pp=ygUIUmFuY2llcmU%3D

Aslı Ü. Bâli, Aziz Rana - The Path to the Trump Doctrine

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

Trump sees the United States standing first in a world divided among “civilizationally” distinct ethno-national communities.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-path-to-the-trump-doctrine/

The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World
Branko Milanovic

In The Great Global Transformation, acclaimed economist Branko Milanovic draws on original research to chart how these seismic shifts will shape the next century of the global economy. As both the US and China retreat into protectionism, Milanovic shows how a new and multipolar world order will follow—and how rising nationalism will have dramatically different effects on the two countries. And he shows us the fight ahead: as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations, driving populist discontent to the breaking point.

А. Арабаджян - Эволюция социалистической системы Кубы и экономические преобразования в 1959-1991 гг.

Новизна исследования основана на привлечении источников, которые редко используются исследователями или не использовались ранее. В частности, в работе используются архивные материалы, которые позволяют увидеть некоторые детали формирования планирования на Кубе и ее социалистической системы (РГАЭ, РГАНИ, архивы Института истории Кубы, Центра исследований Че Гевары, Министерства иностранных дел Кубы, Министерства экономики и планирования, Национальный архив Кубы, архив Бюро по историческим вопросам при администрации Президента Кубы). Помимо этого, мы изучаем предмет, который чаще всего остается за рамками исследований, - динамику системы планирования, теоретические и практические аспекты ее формирования на разных этапах. Такого исследования ранее в отечественной историографии не проводилось. Кубинская историография революционного этапа также на сегодняшний момент недостаточно глубоко проработала этот вопрос.

Hannah S. Chapman - Dialogue with the Dictator

Dialogue with the Dictator illuminates the ways in which authoritarian regimes structure interaction between citizens and leaders to simultaneously manage information dilemmas and build regime legitimacy. In doing so, it demonstrates the conditions under which managed participation can reinforce or jeopardize authoritarian control. Chapters uncover how these tools are viewed from the perspective of the public and the mechanisms through which they influence attitudes toward authorities. By cultivating limited opportunities for participation in otherwise closed political systems, autocrats bolster regime legitimacy while still maintaining control of the means and content of communication. These tools ultimately reinforce and entrench autocratic leaders rather than contributing to increased prospects for democracy – but not without consequences.

Jonathan Rée - We are all layabouts now

Kozhevnikov got off to a shaky start. He had decided to concentrate on Hegel’s unwieldy and enigmatic Phenomenology of Spirit, which was barely known at the time (he himself was not very familiar with it) and not available in French. To make matters worse, he was only 31 (younger than most of his audience) and had never taught before. He was to be employed as a suppléant (supply teacher or deputy) rather than a professor, but his application for an honorary licence, or teaching permit, was rejected – perhaps because he did not have a degree, or because he was still a Russian national. (He waited four more years for a French passport, in the name of Kojève.) The authorities refused to pay him, but he went ahead anyway, supporting himself by selling Leica cameras imported from Germany. His early lectures were, it seems, rather sketchy, but after six months he started receiving a salary and got into the habit of immersing himself in Hegel’s tricky German prose and guiding his audience through it paragraph by paragraph, week after week, translating as he went along and commenting in vivid demotic French. It would take him six years to reach the end.

The lectures took place on Monday afternoons and the official record shows that they attracted an audience of around twelve or fifteen, including several ‘registered students’ (élèves titulaires) and ‘regulars’ (auditeurs assidus), together with a handful of miscellaneous spectators, often including a Jesuit priest, a retired military gentleman and his wife, and the wily Surrealist André Breton. Some of them took Kojève out for dinner afterwards, so he must have been well liked. But he wanted to reach a larger public, and early in 1939 he published a sample in the prestigious literary review Mesures.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/jonathan-ree/we-are-all-layabouts-now