11/14/2008
Robert S. Jansen,
University of California, Los Angeles
Populist Mobilization: Explaining the Historical Emergence of a New Mode of Political Practice
Talk argues that populism is most productively treated as a particular type of political mobilization--as a means that challengers and incumbents alike can employ in pursuit of a wide range of social, political, and economic agendas. Based on this foundation, Jansen explains the historical emergence of populist mobilization in Latin America. Through a comparative analysis of selected Latin American countries during the first half of the twentieth century, the talk identifies populist mobilization's historical preconditions. It then draws on extensive archival data from a strategically selected case--Peru's 1931 presidential election--to identify the paths by which two politicians of quite different ideological orientations came to undertake this particular line of political practice.
Monday, November 17
3:30-5:00 pm
311 Condon Hall
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