Populist Counterpublics: Exploring Populist Mobilization, Crises of Representation, and Popular Subjectivities in Canadian Politics

Sanscartier, Matthew D.

doi:10.22215/etd/2020-14240

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“…Likewise, Carroll et al (2018) characterize the CTF amongst a cluster of advocacy groups that are “more astroturf than grassroots” and argue they are “less about creating an elite consensus and more about promulgating to popular audiences what has been called the ‘corporate agenda’ of neoliberal capitalism” (p. 430). Others (Sancartier 2020) argue that the CTF's role is to mobilize paranoid populist discourse against government, and to create self‐governing 'taxpayer subjects' (Willmott, 2017). Other analysis of taxpayer groups more generally emphasizes the policy entrepreneurship that emerged from perceived policy threats to the wealth of the rich.…”

Section: Taxpayer Groups In the Landscape Of Advocacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Anti‐Indigenous policy formation : Settler colonialism and neoliberal political advocacy

Willmott

Skillings

2021

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Political advocacy groups have a quiet role in much of the analysis of Indigenous‐settler relations, reconciliation, and ongoing settler colonialism. Using a data set of 407 texts covering a range of 21 years (1998‐2019), we conducted a content analysis on the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), a well‐known ‘taxpayer’ group that has long engaged in hostile analysis of First Nations. We describe the various themes that the CTF writes about in relation to Indigenous peoples, discuss the temporal changes in how the CTF discusses policy, and offer theoretical analysis that demonstrates how neoliberal political advocacy groups have looked to weaken and attack the position of Indigenous nations in relation to settler colonial Canada.

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Section: Taxpayer Groups In the Landscape Of Advocacymentioning

confidence: 99%