{"id":4300,"date":"2018-04-19T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/diplomacy\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2018-06-01T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:07:15","slug":"against-foreign-capital-the-populist-temptation-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/2018\/04\/against-foreign-capital-the-populist-temptation-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Foreign Capital?: The Populist Temptation in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Alexander B. Makulilo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Populism has always been a contested concept. However, its core message across definitions is simply in defense of the \u201ccommon people\u201d who are often regarded as marginalized. Hence, as a movement, it claims to seek for \u201cinclusion.\u201d In this regard, its core assumption is just doing away with elites and establishes a more direct democracy thereby reducing inequality and exclusion. As a leader, a populist is associated with \u201ca strongly personalistic leadership style; outsiderism, or the claim that the new leader does not originate from among the existing political class; an anti-system, anti-institutions and anti-organisations rhetoric, often targeting political parties and political corruption; a call for restoring \u2018the power of the people.\u2019\u201d This indicates that an individual leader becomes the center of politics in a polity thereby undermining political institutions. This, in turn, suggests \u201cdecisionism\u201d and lack of predictability in the political system. As such, a populist leader tends to free himself from any kind of institutional control hence promoting institutional decay. As such, populism is \u201canti-party, anti-elite, anti-establishment, anti-political.\u201d Indeed, populists are hostile to the rich, to finance capital, and to big corporations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/files\/2018\/02\/Against-Foreign-Capital-The-Populist-Temptation-in-Tanzania.pdf\">Click Here for Full Text<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alexander B. Makulilo Populism has always been a contested concept. However, its core message across definitions is simply in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3907,"featured_media":4500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,175,632,633,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-2","category-editors-pick","category-populism","category-populism-issue","category-trade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/journalofdiplomacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}