Economic Nationalism and Populism – Intertwining Relations

• Authors: Rafał Riedel

Title variants

PL

Ekonomiczny nacjonalizm i populizm – przenikające się relacje

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The objective of the paper is to analyse two very closely related categories, economic nationalism and economic populism. They intertwine both in the lived politics on the ground and in intellectual debates. Despite a rich interdisciplinary discourse, scholars interested in economic nationalism and economic populism still disagree not only how to explain them, but more fundamentally – about what they are and what their relation is. This paper answers this deficit by addressing the question of the intertwining connections between economic nationalism and populism. In the first instance it reconstructs the basic definitions of economic nationalism – its constitutive elements, its historicity and periodization as well as its main categorisations. The next section focuses on economic populism, it starts with reconstructing the general definitions of populism and then consequently emphasises its economic dimension. In the conclusive part, as well as in throughout the argumentation of whole text, the author highlights the relations between economic nationalism and populism, their overlapping components and elements that they do not share. The origins of populism (as a movement) were economic in nature. Economic populism (as an empty-hearted ideology) is intertwined with nationalism in many of its contemporary (re)incarnations. Both economic nationalism and populism are increasingly important due to their raising political popularity and they require a closer look and scholarly attention.

PL

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zaprezentowanie analizy dwóch, bardzo ściśle powiązanych ze sobą kategorii, nacjonalizmu ekonomicznego oraz ekonomicznego populizmu. Obie kategorie przenikają się zarówno w realnej polityce, jak i w refleksji akademickiej. Mimo bardzo bogatego dyskursu naukowego na temat obydwu, ich badacze cały czas spierają się nie tylko na temat tego jak je wyjaśniać, ale nawet co do ich zasadniczych treści. Zaproponowana analiza stanowi odpowiedź na ten deficyt i próbuje skupić się na związkach ekonomicznego populizmu i nacjonalizmu. W pierwszej kolejności dokonana została rekonstrukcja podstawowych sposobów rozumienia nacjonalizmu ekonomicznego – jego elementów konstytutywnych, jego historyczności, periodyzacji, jak również podstawowych kategoryzacji. Następna część koncentruje swoją uwagę na populizmie, eksponując jednocześnie jego wymiar ekonomiczny. W części konkludywnej, podobnie jak w całym tekście, autor uwypukla zachodzące relacje pomiędzy nacjonalizmem i populizmem ekonomicznym, ich wzajemnie nachodzące na siebie elementy oraz elementy rozbieżne. Początki populizmu (jako ruchu) były z natury ekonomiczne. Populizm ekonomiczny (jako swego rodzaju “pusta” ideologia) przenika nacjonalizm, kreując wiele z jego współczesnych (re)inkarnacji. Zarówno ekonomiczny populizm, jak i nacjonalizm gospodarczy stają się coraz bardziej istotnymi kategoriami analitycznymi, w związku z rosnącym znaczeniem sił nacjonalistycznych i populistycznych, i z tego powodu wymagają zaawansowanej refleksji naukowej.

Keywords

EN

economic nationalism; economic populism; contents; relations; intertwining; economic nationalism; economic populism; contents; relations; intertwining

PL

ekonomiczny nacjonalizm; populizm ekonomiczny; treści; relacje

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Politologiczny
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 7-20

Dates

published

2017-09-15

Contributors

author

Rafał Riedel

• University of Opole

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pp.2017.22.3.1