Representation crises trigger populist breakthroughs across eras

Evidence

Populist breakthroughs usually happen when a spark—economic recession, fiscal reform, or modernization/globalization—first ignites a crisis of representation. Then a broad swath of the society comes to see democracy as having been perverted by an oligarchic minority’s plundering of public resources. Populism rides in as the white knight of “real democracy,” either to defend it against the hijack of its existing structures (the oligopolistic takeover of the United States in the late nineteenth century, the technocratic handling of the eurozone crisis in the aftermath of 2008) or to force its advent against the bottlenecks of pre-democratic societies (Tsarist Russia, Latin American landlordism). — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 80

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Money’s instability created postmodernity’s crisis of representation — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1883; Crises, real or imagined, drive popular support for nationalist and populist leaders — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82; Markets and populist publics may share a common yearning for uncertainty — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 65 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Crises, real or imagined, drive popular support for nationalist and populist leaders #corroborates (0.85) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82
• A political language rises when it can define and narrate a crisis #expands (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1112
• Money’s instability created postmodernity’s crisis of representation #expands (0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1883
• Populism proved a transient politics because its age runs on short-term exit options #qualifies (0.75) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 345
• Markets and populist publics may share a common yearning for uncertainty #expands (0.72) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 65