Populist solutions

The Future of Populist Parallelism

Why Populist Democracy Promotes Market Liberalization

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing compensating justice to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to inhabitants of open borders between formerly integrated countries, where people face the same level of marke...

Book Review: Populist Systems: A General Introduction

The Populist Persuasion: An American History

Populist Authoritarianism: The Future of the Chinese Communist Party

The conventional wisdom on China's domestic political situation is one of tension and turmoil. China's leaders seem beset with a host of problems for which they have no ready answer. They face a growing number of popular protests in the cities and the countryside. Corruption seems to be endemic, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lacks the means or the will to crackdown on corrupt officials,...