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      An alternative account of the populist backlash in the United States: a perspective from Turkey

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      Esen, Berk
      Yardımcı-Geyikçi, Ş.
      Date
      2019
      Source Title
      PS - Political Science and Politics
      Print ISSN
      1049-0965
      Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
      Volume
      52
      Issue
      3
      Pages
      445 - 450
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Scholars tend to assume that consolidated democracies are free from the global retreat of democracy due to their strong institutions and economic development. Yet, populist forces that challenge the liberal democratic model have started to increase their support even in Western countries. However, in no country has democratic backsliding taken scholars by more surprise than in the United States. This article addresses the question of how a populist figure like Donald Trump managed to win the presidential election and subsequently undermined the democratic institutions in one of the world’s oldest democracies. We contend that the upsurge of populist leaders in contemporary Western democracies resulted from the political establishment’s failure to juggle responsiveness and responsibility simultaneously. In addition to our discussion of American politics, we draw parallels with the Turkish case to demonstrate our causal argument and offer suggestions on how to reverse democratic backsliding in the United States.
      Keywords
      Consolidated democracies
      Liberal democratic model
      Donald Trump
      American politics
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/53241
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      https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519000180
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