{"id":11595,"date":"2025-06-19T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11595"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:51:26","slug":"the-political-economy-of-populism","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/tr\/previous-courses\/summer-2018\/the-political-economy-of-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Economy of Populism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-93552f31\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">The Political Economy of Populism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#ozlem-albayrak-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00d6ZLEM ALBAYRAK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#Ulas-Sener-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ULA\u015e \u015eENER<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp; course&nbsp; deals&nbsp; with&nbsp; the&nbsp; political&nbsp; economy&nbsp; of&nbsp; populism.&nbsp; Students&nbsp; will&nbsp; gain&nbsp; a&nbsp; thorough&nbsp; understanding of recent populist economic policies as well as the history of populism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp; course&nbsp; will&nbsp; aim&nbsp; at&nbsp; understanding&nbsp; the&nbsp; relationship&nbsp; between&nbsp; populism&nbsp; and&nbsp; economic&nbsp; policies, how populism has evolved over the last decades and how populist policies have assumed&nbsp; their&nbsp; present&nbsp; shape&nbsp; under&nbsp; global&nbsp; neoliberalism.&nbsp; It&nbsp; will&nbsp; describe&nbsp; the&nbsp; structure&nbsp; of&nbsp; populism and analyze the role of populist economic policies within the global economy. We will examine key features of populist policies, case studies and recent debates on populism. A special emphasis will be on Neoliberalism\u2019s stance toward populism, institutional features of populist policies, and populist policies after the global financial and economic crisis. Finally, we&nbsp; will&nbsp; look&nbsp; into&nbsp; populist&nbsp; social&nbsp; strategies,&nbsp; distributive&nbsp; consequences&nbsp; of&nbsp; economic&nbsp; and&nbsp; institutional policies under populism and deal with their contradictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics and issues include: Defining populism; populism and economic policies; theoretical and empirical&nbsp; questions&nbsp; on&nbsp; populism;&nbsp; populism&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; left&nbsp; and&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; right,&nbsp; the&nbsp; neoliberalism\u2010globalization\u2010populism nexus; institutions and social policies under populism; monetary policy and populism; case studies: Latin America, USA, EU and Turkey.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-political-economy-of-populism-syllabus-S18.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"the-political-economy-of-populism-syllabus-S18 g\u00f6m\u00fcs\u00fc.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-60cf6b5a-0200-4aea-876d-f2afabf54923\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/the-political-economy-of-populism-syllabus-S18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the-political-economy-of-populism-syllabus-S18<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">12.04.18 &#8211; 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