Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.73

Title: 

Trump and Trumpism: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism and Its Consequences

Speaker: 

Bert A. Rockman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Purdue University

Host: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, Fudan IGPP

Time: 

12:00-13:20, May 21, Wednesday, 2025

Venue: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

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The Speaker：

Bert A. Rockman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Purdue University and former Head of the Department. Previously, he was The University Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, a Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, and Director of the School of Public Policy and Management at The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has been a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASS) and a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem). He has been co-editor of the journal Governance, President of the Presidential Studies Section of the American Political Science Association and President of the Midwest Caucus for Public Administration. He received the Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the U.S. Presidency and the Herbert Simon Award for Scientific Contributions to the Study of Bureaucracy.

Abstract:

This talk explores how Donald Trump came to be a major political figure in the United States reflecting an international rise in right wing populist leaders. There are four principal components to this talk. First, the unorthodox style of Trump’s political appeal; second, the political coalition that he – and others like him – have created in a buyer-seller relation as well as the variability in short run conditions working to his advantage and disadvantage; third, the nature of shifts in the internal coalitions of the political parties, why that happened and how it has impacted political polarization; and fourth, Trump’s impact on policy, government, institutions, and the international world order.