The mechanism of the populist backlash according to Girard, Sandel and Haidt.
Michael Sandel and Jonathan Haidt have proposed complementary ways of understanding the mechanisms of the populist backlash phenomenon. This article will seek to briefly present these proposals and then link these with another proposal, that of Girard’s mimetic theory. The article aims to show how t...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Francisco de Vitoria |
| Repository: | DDFV. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddfv.ufv.es:10641/5253 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10641/5253 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Meritocracia Tribalismo Teoría mimética Chivo expiatorio Meritocracy René Girard Mimetic theory Scapegoat mechanism |
| Summary: | Michael Sandel and Jonathan Haidt have proposed complementary ways of understanding the mechanisms of the populist backlash phenomenon. This article will seek to briefly present these proposals and then link these with another proposal, that of Girard’s mimetic theory. The article aims to show how the mimetic theory explains the scapegoat mechanism underlying the rejection of meritocracy as well as tribalism. This mechanism could be said to have generated the current situation in Western society. |
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