DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT AND AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM
DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT AND AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the social protests i.e. democratic movements in recent years in countries like Tunisia, Egypt, but also Russia or Ukraine, with not only a few democratic deficits. These protests started with great expectations from their actors but also in other, especially western democratic societies. Generally speaking, they all had disappointing ends, not at least concerning changes in democratic culture and institutionalization. Instead, what appeared was a kind of authoritarian populist strategy. The author follows the question of why this has happened and therefore relies on the some explanations based on the theoretical approach of present materialist state theory. This article was originally presented as a conference paper at the VIII. International Conference of the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Security Studies, 23-25 May 2014, Sibiu, Romania.

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