The term “populism” has seemingly oversaturated the American political vocabulary overnight. And yet, populist movements have defined the world stage for generations. Just within the last three …
Putin: a Populist or a Stealth Authoritarian? – By Julia Fischer
In the article, “How Democracies Fall Apart,” Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz name various populist leaders that have come to power since the end of the Cold War, and they discuss how these …
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Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum: a Cautionary Tale for a Post-Arab Springs World by Clara Fong
Amidst the Arab Spring Movement in 2011, Egypt was one of several in the region to successfully overthrow their government, igniting inspiration of a democratic future. Today, however, the continuous …
What the Fukuyama? by Selena Spencer
This piece argues against Francis Fukuyama's famous piece "The End of History". In February 1989 at the University of Chicago in room 122 of the Social Science Research Building, Francis Fukuyama …
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Is America A Populist Regime? by Kenjiro Lee
In Chapter 2 of "What Is Populism?", Jan-Werner Müller takes to task the concept of how a populist in power operates, mainly deconstructing the concept that a populist can no longer use tactics of …
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International Pressures and the Sudanese Promissory Coup by Sammy Elmasri
Nancy Bermeo, in her 2016 paper “On Democratic Backsliding,” describes the transition of “the classic open-ended coups d’état of the Cold War years [to what she calls] promissory coups,” which, of …
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