The Politics of Rage
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2019-2020
01016450
Área Científica do Menor
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
English due to class lectures and reading materials.
Teaching Methods
Teaching methods include both lecture and discussion. Each class will begin with a discussion of current events in the US, which students are expected to follow on their own.
Learning Outcomes
This course proposes to provide the students with the knowledge on right-wing populist movements in the western world, focusing on the case of the USA which lead to President Donald J. Trump being elected. The course unit focuses on the historial, cultural, economic and political contexts surrounding populist movements. It provides a historical perspective on the populist movement in the USA, starting with the agricultural movement close to the end of the XIX century which fought against corporative elites and government corruption. This course unit also aims to analyse the growth in populist movements in the USA during the 1950's and 60's where the movement suffered a political alteration which changed from a left-wing perspective against the economic elite to a right-wing perspective against the cultural elite. Lastly, the course unit analysis how the case study of the USA compares and differes from populist european movements.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Week 1: Populism: An early history
Week 2: Populism today
Week 3: The silent majority
Week 4: The Tea Party
Week 5: Research designs due
Week 6: Empathy or apologist?
Week 7: Meetings on research design
Week 8: What liberals need to learn about white workers
Week 9: Trump and the Guardrails of American Democracy
Week 10: Europe in the rear view mirror
Week 11: Research paper presentations
Week 12: Research paper presentations
Week 13: Conclusions.
Head Lecturer(s)
Alan Draper
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%
Bibliography
Jon Werner Muller, What is Populism? (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Arlie Hochschild, Strangers in the Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, (The New Press, 2017)
Joan C. Williams White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness (Harvard Business Press, 2017)
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Penguin, 2017)
Henning Meyer, Understanding the Populist Revolt (See: http://stocktaking-scenarios.blog.rosalux.de/files/2017/06/Understanding-The-Populist-Revolt-PDF.pdf)