TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meckstroth, Christopher
T1  - Populism, cosmopolitanism, or democratic realism?
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - This article argues that populism, cosmopolitanism, and calls for global justice should be understood not as theoretical positions but as appeals to different segments of democratic electorates with the aim of assembling winning political coalitions. This view is called democratic realism: it considers political competition in democracies from a perspective that is realist in the sense that it focuses not first on the content of competing political claims but on the relationships among different components of the coalitions they work to mobilise in the pursuit of power. It is argued that Laclau’s populist theory offers a sort of realist critique of other populists, but that his view neglects the crucial dynamics of political coalition-building. When the relation of populism to global justice is rethought from this democratic realist angle, one can better understand the sorts of challenges each faces, and also where and how they come into conflict.
KW  - populism
KW  - global justice
KW  - cosmopolitanism
KW  - realism
KW  - democracy
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61153
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-611532
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 12.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 94
EP  - 116
PB  - The Global Justice Network
ER  -