This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Benjamin Moffitt [Bluesky]. Ben’s an Associate Professor of Politics at ACU (Melbourne) and the author of three books on … populism! Populism (Polity, 2020), Political Meritocracy and Populism: Curse or Cure? (with Mark Chou & Octavia Bryant, Routledge, 2020), and The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style and Representation (Stanford University Press, 2016). We spoke to Ben about … populism: its (recent) origins; influence, meaning and significance; dominant forms; popularity as a political designation … and more.
See/hear also : Fascist bedfellows, Elle Hardy, The Monthly, December 2024–January 2025 /// How a pro-Putin TikTok star topped Romania’s presidential poll, Marton Dunai, Financial Times, November 26, 2024 | Yeah Nah Pasaran! #218 w Aurelien Mondon on race riots in the UK : August 8, 2024 /// Yeah Nah Pasaran! #091 w Cas Mudde on Populism & The Far Right : October 21, 2021.
4.30pm, Thursday, December 5, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website
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