Populism vs. post-democracy?
Europeans are usually alarmed or sniffy about American concern for democracy’s fate, but this time liberal opinion on both sides of the pond sings in unison: populism is a threat… Read more »
Tag: populism
Are democracies stable ? ‘Warning signs are flashing red’
Is the populist backlash just a new kind of politics, or a symptom of something deeper? To answer that question, Harvard’s Yascha Mounk and the University of Melbourne’s Roberto Stefan… Read more »
Europe’s populist threat: reframing the debate
‘Populism’ is often used in such a broad, catch-all fashion that it makes for extremely imprecise analysis and policy prescription, according to Richard Youngs, a Senior Associate with the Carnegie… Read more »
Democracy ‘still the most effective form of government ever devised’
U.S. President Barack Obama warned today against a rise in nationalism and populism – from both Left and Right – noting that a backlash against globalization had stoked illiberal movements…. Read more »
How populism can strengthen democracy, not imperil it
Populism has long been a contested and ambiguous concept, notes Michael Kazin, who teaches history at Georgetown University: Scholars debate whether it is a creed, a style, a political strategy,… Read more »
Why populism is not fascism
It is a mistake to conflate populism and fascism: populism is a symptom of democracy in trouble, while fascism and other revolutionary movements are the consequence of democracy in crisis,… Read more »
Populism the ‘most menacing challenger’ to democracy
European democracy seems to be in jeopardy, and there is no shortage of culprits, notes Takis S. Pappas, associate professor of comparative politics at the University of Macedonia and coeditor… Read more »
Eastern Europe’s ‘superfluous men’ living in wrong historical moment?
Russian nineteenth-century literature famously had a string of leading characters, the best known being Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, who were called superfluous men, notes Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate at… Read more »
Eight threats to Europe’s democracies
Europe’s democracies face deeper problems than Brexit or the sometimes creaky, sometimes overbearing machinery of European governance, argues George Weigel, the Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy… Read more »
Does populism’s rise mean liberalism’s end?
Liberal democracy may be facing dark times, as a conference at the National Endowment (left and below) this week suggested. But this is not the first time the Liberal Story… Read more »