Political Science 797PT - ST- Populism and Trump

This seminar has two goals. The first one is to examine populism by discussing articles and books on the subject. The second one is to see if, and how, populism, as understood by the literature, fits the emergence of Trump and his policies. Analysis and critiques of populism will be prominent. Among the authors to be discussed are Ernesto Laclau, Kenneth Roberts, Margaret Canovan, Marco D'Eramo, Jan Werner-Muller, Arlie Russell Hochschild, and Enrique Dussel.