Populism and Progressivism as Constitutional Categories

Populism and Progressivism as Constitutional Categories

Prelude to Progressivism: Party Decay, Populism, and the Doctrine of “Free and Unrestricted Competition” in American Antitrust Policy, 1890–1897

On December 8, 1896, the Supreme Court heard arguments in United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association.1 The defendant was an association of 18 railroads locked in competition for traffic between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean. By memorandum of agreement, member railways had voluntarily agreed to cease all price-based competition and abide by a common schedule of rates. Attorne...

Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy

This paper analyses the efficiency consequences of lobbying in a production economy with imperfect commitment. We first show that the Pareto efficiency result found for truthful equilibria of common agency games in static exchange economies no longer holds under these more general conditions. We construct a model of pressure groups where the set of efficient truthful common-agency equilibria ha...

Restriction categories as enriched categories

Article history: Received 27 November 2012 Received in revised form 4 September 2013 Accepted 20 December 2013 Communicated by B.P.F. Jacobs

Populism and Feminism: Odd Bedfellows

In this era of populist insurgency breaking the mold of democratic politics, two movements clashed.They represented opposite sides of the political spectrum, one emancipatory, the other exclusionary. One may be identified as feminism, the other as populism. This essay analyzes both concepts and explores their connection.