Introduction: What Is Populist Nationalism and Why Does It Matter?

Hafner-Burton, Emilie M.; Narang, Neil; Rathbun, Brian C.

doi:10.1086/702235

Cited by 16 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 20 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This way of understanding the possible value of patriotism, which takes as its premise the equal moral worth of individuals rather than drawing on communitarian accounts of morality, may be of particular interest to moral universalists interested in explaining what patriotism might look like at its conceptual and normative best. 107 In the midst of neoliberalism's reinvention of modern individuals as entrepreneurs of their own satisfaction, 108 and the concurrent rise of populist nationalism, 109 Smith's account of impartial patriotism offers a surprising alternative.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adam Smith on Impartial Patriotism

Elazar¹

2021

Rev Pol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Scholars have emphasized Adam Smith's critique of the dangers of patriotism, but have not paid close attention to its potential value. This article recovers from Smith's work an attractive model of patriotism without nationalism. The potential value of patriotism lies in inspiring individuals to realize an ideal of impartial beneficence, which consists in overcoming selfishness and other subpolity partialities and in promoting the greater happiness of all fellow citizens. Smith defends virtuous patriotism against strong cosmopolitanism by arguing that a global division of labor, which directs individuals to benefit their compatriots, more effectively serves the interests of humanity than directly trying to promote global happiness. This article illuminates aspects of Smith's work that contrast with the “invisible hand” argument and favor the conscious pursuit of public interest in some contexts. It contributes to recent discussions of patriotism a distinctive way of understanding its relation to impartiality.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adam Smith on Impartial Patriotism

Elazar¹

2021

Rev Pol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Populist parties need not be explicitly nationalist, however, as appeals mobilize voters on multiple identities as the “true people” in contrast to an unaccountable global elite and feckless national government. As a rhetorical strategy, populists such as Donald Trump emphasized grievances with the international system (Hafner-Burton et al, 2019; Boucher and Thies, 2019) and desire to change the approach toward a more neomercantilist rather than neoliberal approach (Helleiner, 2020). Indeed, international institutions seen as antithetical to the goals of many populist parties such as the European Union have also seen support from so-called “populist market liberals” (Verbeek and Zaslove, 2017; Destradi et al, 2021).…”

Section: Aid Allocation In Service Of Ideology and Coalitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Donor political preferences and the allocation of aid: Patterns in recipient type

Greene,

Licht

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

National executives in Western democracies are not unilateral deciders: they lead parties with long-term policy priorities and manage challenging multiparty coalitions. Leaders of donor states use foreign aid to pursue their goals, including enacting policy output consistent with party ideology. Because preferences for international engagement condition the effect of left–right ideology and coalition government incorporates actors with distinct preferences, we predict that left-pro-internationalist prime ministers and development ministers prefer aiding the neediest recipients while right-internationalists emphasize trade opportunities. Our statistical analysis of OECD donor–potential recipient dyads demonstrates the utility of unpacking democratic domestic politics’ effect on leader incentives and decisions.

show abstract

“… 1 See, among many others, Boucher and Thies (2019), Carnegie and Carson (2019), Norrlof (2019), and Pevehouse (2020). Political science and policy journals have devoted special issues to this topic (Copelovitch and Pevehouse 2019; Hafner-Burton et al 2019; Rose 2016). …”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism and foreign aid

Heinrich

Kobayashi

Lawson

2021

European Journal of International Relations

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Pundits, development practitioners, and scholars worry that rising populism and international disengagement in developed countries have negative consequences on foreign aid. However, how populism and foreign aid go together is not well understood. This paper provides the first systematic examination of this relationship. We adopt the popular ideational definition of populism, unpack populism into its core “thin” elements, and examine them within a delegation model of aid policy—a prominent framework in the aid literature. In so doing, we identify specific domestic political processes through which the core components of populism may affect aid spending. We argue that increases in one component of populism—anti-elitism—and in nativist sentiments, an associated concept, in a donor country lead to a reduction in aid spending through a public opinion channel. We supply both micro- and macro-evidence for our arguments by fielding surveys in the United States and United Kingdom as well as by analyzing aid spending by a large number of OECD donors. Our findings show that nativism and anti-elitism, rather than populism per se, influence not only individual attitudes toward aid but also actual aid policy and generate important insights into how to address populist challenges to foreign aid. Beyond these, our study contributes to the broader International Relations literature by demonstrating one useful analytical approach to studying populism, nativism, and foreign policy.

show abstract

Introduction: What Is Populist Nationalism and Why Does It Matter?

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Adam Smith on Impartial Patriotism

Adam Smith on Impartial Patriotism

Donor political preferences and the allocation of aid: Patterns in recipient type

Populism and foreign aid

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About