“BİRADERLER REJİMİ”NDEN “ZORBA BİRADERİN REJİMİ”NE: OTORİTER SAĞ POPÜLİZM, LİBERAL DEMOKRASİ VE TOPLUMSAL CİNSİYET
FROM THE “REGIME OF THE BROTHERS” TO THE “REGIME OF THE TYRANT BROTHER”: AUTHORITARIAN RIGHT-WING POPULISM, LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND GENDER

Summary/Abstract: Researchers of populism have long noted the anti-feminist and reactionary discourses of authoritarian right-wing populist leaders, along with their aggressively masculine political performances. This study attempts to answer the following questions: Why do authoritarian right-wing populist leaders ground their objections to liberal democracy on a masculinist discourse? What kind of gendered imaginations do they act upon while attacking liberal democratic understanding of representation and pluralism? In order to answer these questions, we employ feminist theory’s critique of liberal democracy, and metaphors of family, particularly of relations between siblings, as an analytical tool. By focusing on the authoritarian right-wing populism’s construct of “the people” as a homogeneous entity, and the leader as the embodiment of that entity, we analyse the gendered imaginations that underlie the populists’ aggressive attitudes concerning plurality and difference.

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