https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Populism-is-a-Form-of-Anti-Pluralism https://booksandideas.net/Populism-is-a-Form-of-Anti-Pluralism 2017-06-05T07:00:00Z text/html en Hervé Berville Politics democracy populism legitimacy Florence Gould Foundation <p>The omnipresence of the term ‘populism' only serves to underline its semantic and ideological ambiguity. According to J.-W. Müller, populists claim that they and they alone represent the popular will and are both a reflection of political institutions in crisis and a threat to democracy.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Marketing-the-Party https://booksandideas.net/Marketing-the-Party 2016-11-10T08:00:00Z text/html en Jinrui Xi Politics International China legitimacy government Communist party <p>How can we explain the Chinese Communist Party's lasting legitimacy? Part of the answer may be found in the ritual official inspections of the grassroots. Even if limited and orchestrated, they tend to boost transparency, communication, efficiency.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Class-and-Culture-3207 https://booksandideas.net/Class-and-Culture-3207 2015-12-10T08:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux & Igor Martinache Philosophy legitimacy culture Bourdieu distinction equality Institut français Text Interviews <p>Thirty years ago, Pierre Bourdieu's <i>La Distinction</i> laid the groundwork for a reintegration of cultural factors into our thinking about capital. Is this argument still valid today? Philippe Coulangeon talks about the metamorphoses of distinction in a world defined by inequalities in wealth and by the mutations of cultural legitimacy.</p>