Authority in the Era of Populism
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
What is required of a good leader in an age of disruption? Jamie Bartlett, Professor Mary Kaldor, Dame Louise Casey, Dame Heather Rabbatts, Rupert Reid debate at the London School of Economics. Anne McElvoy chairs.
Jamie Bartlett is writer and technology industry analyst at the think tank Demos.
Mary Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance at LSE.
Louise Casey is former head of the Respect Task Force, the UK’s first Victims’ Commissioner, director general of Troubled Families.
Heather Rabbatts is former chief executive of the London boroughs of Lambeth, Merton, and Hammersmith and Fulham.
Rupert Reid is Director of Research and Strategy at the centre right think tank Policy Exchange
The London School of Economics Festival New World Disorders runs from February 25th to 2nd March http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Festival/NewWorldDisorders
Producer: Eliane Glaser
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| 0:37.1 | Hello, I'm Anne McElvoy, and this is BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas podcast, |
| 0:42.6 | bringing together leading artists, writers and thinkers, |
| 0:45.6 | in discussions which try to answer a range of questions, |
| 0:49.0 | from should we keep pets to what does it mean to belong, |
| 0:52.9 | or what can Nietzsche teach us? So stay with us for one of those |
| 0:57.1 | conversations. We often hear that we live in a post-deferential age and that public trust in |
| 1:03.5 | politicians and elites more broadly is waning. Yet we're also seeing the rise of strong man |
| 1:09.3 | leaders around the world and a popularity of those who stridently battle for their own view to hell with the naysayers. |
| 1:16.7 | So what's the difference between power and authority and authority and authoritarianism? |
| 1:22.4 | And a new forms of authority and leadership emerging in the worlds of politics, government, business and technology. |
| 1:30.3 | We're here at the London School of Economics and Political Science for a special edition of free thinking, |
| 1:36.3 | recorded in front of an audience as part of the LSE's Festival of Ideas, which explores the theme of new world orders and disorders. |
| 1:45.0 | And we'll be asking how social science can tackle global issues. |
| 1:49.0 | How did we get here? |
| 1:50.0 | And importantly, how can we address them and close the gap between those in authority and those at the end of the process? |
| 1:57.0 | Joining me on stage of five people well placed to analyze our love-hate relationship with |
| 2:02.0 | authority and where it might be heading. Mary Caldor is Professor of Global Governance here at the |
| 2:08.1 | LSC. She's written widely on globalisation, civil society, democratisation and modern conflict. |
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