Donald Trump, populismo y las fallas de la democracia en los Estados Unidos

The political science literature presents an interesting debate on the implications of populism for democracy. There is the literature that claims that populism is a severe danger to democracy while, on the other hand, there are the academics who claim that populism can serve as a democratizing tool. Taking into account this debate on populism and democracy, and the controversial presidential elections of 2016 in the United States, this monograph through an analysis of populist theories of political science affirms that Donald Trump is a populist leader and that his Populist discourse reflected structural flaws in American democracy. To understand what these failures are, an analysis of his speech and of his voters is made, to comprehend why what Trump presented was so attractive to a high percentage of the population. With this analysis it concludes that through the intelligent use of populism as a political style, Donald Trump managed to reactivate socially and politically a large sector of the population that for several years suffered thanks to neoliberal reforms, which allowed him to win the 2016 elections. Hence, Donald Trump's arrival in the political arena is a consequence of an outdated neoliberal democracy and his emergence allows work to be done to reform this democracy. --Taken from the Degree Document Format.

• Autores: Restrepo Dávila, Luis Alejandro
• Tipo de recurso: Trabajo de grado de pregrado
• Fecha de publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/51347
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/51347
• Palabra clave: Trump, Donald; Presidentes; Populismo; Retórica; Estados Unidos; Ciencia Política
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/