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I’ve been thinking about CasP and the Right for a few days now. The more I think about it, the more scared I become. Most CasP researchers (including me) assume that if you lift the veil of power — talk about it openly — then this automatically leads to a critique of power. But that’s a philosophical assumption, in some sense, tied to liberalism.
Liberals dislike (or at least claim to dislike) concentrated power. But they don’t talk about the realities of power openly. CasP researchers keep this dislike of concentrated power, but care about reality.
The Right, however, increasingly celebrates power openly. It hearkens back to the fascism of the 1930s, or even earlier to feudalism. In the feudal mode of power, power was celebrated as a virtue. Yes, it was mixed with religion. But you could see how if you showed that a king’s income was a function of his power, he would take that as a compliment. ‘Now give me more power please’, he would say.
If CasP is to be a progressive research agenda, then the onus is on us to not only investigate power, but to show its injustices.
A fascinating post, A B. Just wanted to reply with a technical note. For some reason, some of your angle brackets got replaced with html code. Playing around, it looks like this happens when you toggle between ‘text’ view and ‘html’ view. That’s unfortunate. We’re working on getting a preview function for the forum. But for now, be aware that if you toggle between html and visual, some of your code may get wrecked.
Anyway, I manually fixed the problem here.
Looking forward to the discussion.
I’ve ironed out a few bugs in the app. And I’ve added a data download button. Also, if you find some interesting words, you can save the plot image by right clicking. Feel free to upload anything interesting here. I feel like I’m just beginning to explore the data.
Hey everyone,
Thanks for your interest in this post. I’d like to point out two things. First, the data for the post is available at the Open Science Foundation: https://osf.io/afz3p/. I welcome other researchers to see what other results are lurking in the data.
Second, I’m working on an app to visualize the econospeak data. If you have the time, kindly try it out and offer feedback:
https://blair-fix.shinyapps.io/deconstructing-econospeak/
There is something to be said for taking a common term and turning it on its head. I don’t personally use the term ‘rent’ much in my research. It seems to be too tied (for my liking) to the concept of ‘unearned income’. That’s a fundamentally unmeasurable concept.
But I do like, Troy, that you’re experimenting with new ways of grouping income. In the end, its the accounting that matters. What you call it is just semantics. (Although, as Jonathan says, many people will ignore the accounting definition and just respond to how they understand your words.)
