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# Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

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Review: The Best Research on Why so Many Countries Are Turning to Right-Wing Populism - I've read two other books on populism. This one is denser but more convincing. If you only think about US politics and buy the myth that the country has been going downhill economically since 1973, it will seem wrong. But one great strength of this book is its international perspective. That blows away many US-centric views. A highly important book that needs more attention. (See also: What Is Populism? )
Review: Is It Really All About Culture? - There is a lot of impressive data in this book (making it a quick read if you skip the figures and tables). Its central flaw comes in the foundational assessment that the Millennial and Gen-X generations are somehow "post-materialist." This theory is best summarized on pages 34-35: "Economic and physical security have led to pervasive intergenerational cultural changes, bringing a shift from materialist to post-materialist values. People changed from giving top priority to economic and physical safety and conformity to group norms toward increasing emphasis on individual freedom. Growing up under much more secure conditions than their elders, the younger birth cohorts had considerably more tolerant social norms and as they replaced the older cohorts in the adult population, the prevailing culture of their societies were gradually transformed. It took decades for this to happen but it eventually gave rise to a positive feedback loop. People take for granted the world into which they are born. It seems normal and legitimate. The cultural norms of high-income conditions and the world into which one was born was much smaller for Millennials than for the Interwar generation. Conversely, as time went by, the older cohorts experienced a growing gap between the norms of the world into which they had been born, and the world in which they lived. The younger birth cohorts had experienced greater gender equality, tolerant sexual norms, and cultural diversity since birth and they seemed familiar and unthreatening. For many older people, same-sex marriage, women in leadership roles, multicultural diversity in cities, and, in the US, an African-American President were disorienting departures from the norms they had known since childhood; they felt they had become strangers in their own land. The process of cultural change was reinforced by large-scale immigration, rising access to college education, and urbanization. The pace of long-term cultural change can be accelerated or weakened by period-effects associated with shifts in economic conditions and population migration." I personally would prefer to believe that the election of Trump was actually a reaction to the fact that our economy today works for fewer and fewer people -- that if Obama had done more to reduce inequality, he might not have been succeeded by Trump. The alternative is that most older white Americans are irredeemable and we can only wait for them to die. How can younger people be "post-materialist" when their lives are materially harder than those of their parents? There is only one chapter in this book on economic grievances. To their credit, in their "What is to be Done?" segment at the end of the book, the authors do submit a ringing endorsement of a frontal attack on inequality in democracies (page 464): "Western societies are currently regressing toward the authoritarian politics that is linked historically with economic insecurity. But -- unlike the rise of Fascism during the Great Depression -- this does not result from objective scarcity. Western societies possess abundant and growing resources, but they are increasingly misallocated from the standpoint of maximizing human well-being. Insecurity today results from growing inequality -- which is ultimately a political question. Government intervention could reallocate a significant part of these resources to create meaningful jobs in healthcare, education, building infrastructure, environmental protection, research and development, care of the elderly, and the arts and humanities -- with the goal of improving the quality of life for society as a whole, rather than maximizing corporate profits." This is a refreshing change from the authors' insistence elsewhere that Bernie Sanders is a Libertarian Populist, or that the opposite of populism is pluralism. It comes rather too late, however, so I deduct one star from my rating of this book. It's only one star because I find it difficult to argue with the authors' overall thesis that cultural issues really are the most important in contemporary Western politics. I recommend reading this book if you are interested in that subject.

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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,015,774 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #475 in Political Parties (Books) #820 in United States National Government #1,532 in European Politics Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 120 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Best Research on Why so Many Countries Are Turning to Right-Wing Populism
*by Z***S on January 24, 2020*

I've read two other books on populism. This one is denser but more convincing. If you only think about US politics and buy the myth that the country has been going downhill economically since 1973, it will seem wrong. But one great strength of this book is its international perspective. That blows away many US-centric views. A highly important book that needs more attention. (See also: What Is Populism? )

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Is It Really All About Culture?
*by J***H on March 16, 2019*

There is a lot of impressive data in this book (making it a quick read if you skip the figures and tables). Its central flaw comes in the foundational assessment that the Millennial and Gen-X generations are somehow "post-materialist." This theory is best summarized on pages 34-35: "Economic and physical security have led to pervasive intergenerational cultural changes, bringing a shift from materialist to post-materialist values. People changed from giving top priority to economic and physical safety and conformity to group norms toward increasing emphasis on individual freedom. Growing up under much more secure conditions than their elders, the younger birth cohorts had considerably more tolerant social norms and as they replaced the older cohorts in the adult population, the prevailing culture of their societies were gradually transformed. It took decades for this to happen but it eventually gave rise to a positive feedback loop. People take for granted the world into which they are born. It seems normal and legitimate. The cultural norms of high-income conditions and the world into which one was born was much smaller for Millennials than for the Interwar generation. Conversely, as time went by, the older cohorts experienced a growing gap between the norms of the world into which they had been born, and the world in which they lived. The younger birth cohorts had experienced greater gender equality, tolerant sexual norms, and cultural diversity since birth and they seemed familiar and unthreatening. For many older people, same-sex marriage, women in leadership roles, multicultural diversity in cities, and, in the US, an African-American President were disorienting departures from the norms they had known since childhood; they felt they had become strangers in their own land. The process of cultural change was reinforced by large-scale immigration, rising access to college education, and urbanization. The pace of long-term cultural change can be accelerated or weakened by period-effects associated with shifts in economic conditions and population migration." I personally would prefer to believe that the election of Trump was actually a reaction to the fact that our economy today works for fewer and fewer people -- that if Obama had done more to reduce inequality, he might not have been succeeded by Trump. The alternative is that most older white Americans are irredeemable and we can only wait for them to die. How can younger people be "post-materialist" when their lives are materially harder than those of their parents? There is only one chapter in this book on economic grievances. To their credit, in their "What is to be Done?" segment at the end of the book, the authors do submit a ringing endorsement of a frontal attack on inequality in democracies (page 464): "Western societies are currently regressing toward the authoritarian politics that is linked historically with economic insecurity. But -- unlike the rise of Fascism during the Great Depression -- this does not result from objective scarcity. Western societies possess abundant and growing resources, but they are increasingly misallocated from the standpoint of maximizing human well-being. Insecurity today results from growing inequality -- which is ultimately a political question. Government intervention could reallocate a significant part of these resources to create meaningful jobs in healthcare, education, building infrastructure, environmental protection, research and development, care of the elderly, and the arts and humanities -- with the goal of improving the quality of life for society as a whole, rather than maximizing corporate profits." This is a refreshing change from the authors' insistence elsewhere that Bernie Sanders is a Libertarian Populist, or that the opposite of populism is pluralism. It comes rather too late, however, so I deduct one star from my rating of this book. It's only one star because I find it difficult to argue with the authors' overall thesis that cultural issues really are the most important in contemporary Western politics. I recommend reading this book if you are interested in that subject.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cultural Backlash explains the world we live in
*by L***S on July 9, 2019*

This is a deeply researched, but eminently readable book. If you, like I, wonder what's happened and why we are choosing autocrats around this world, this book is for you.

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