Neil Walker (Edinburgh): Populism and Constitutional Tension. Akritas Kaidatzis (AUTh): Populist Constitutionalism as a Critique on Liberal (or Legal) Constitutionalism. Brian Elliott (Portland State): Populism and Popular Sovereignty: Paradoxes of Democracy. Emiliana De Blasio and Michele Sorice (LUISS): Populism between Direct Democracy and the Technological Myth. Ming-Sung Kuo (Warwick): Against Instantaneous Democracy. Douglas Giles (Essex): No Matter How Popular, Reactionism is Not Populism. Post-truth or moral truth? Lone Sorensen on the populist claim to authenticity.
In Western Europe, populist parties tap anti-establishment frustration but have little appeal across ideological divide. An emerging populism is sweeping the Middle East. “They may pursue lose-lose outcomes simply so that others will suffer”: Philippe Legrain on overcoming the politics of pessimism. The opposite of populist nationalism is not globalist elitism; it is economic realism — and in the end, countries such as Britain, the United States, and now Italy will learn the hard way that reality always eventually wins.
Thomas Palley (UMass): Globalization Checkmated? Political and Geopolitical Contradictions Coming Home to Roost. The populism backlash: Luigi Guiso, Helios Herrera, Massimo Morelli, Tommaso Sonno on an economically driven backlash. Is capitalism a threat to democracy? The idea that authoritarianism attracts workers harmed by the free market, which emerged when the Nazis were in power, has been making a comeback. America’s version of capitalism is incompatible with democracy. The first chapter from Polanyi in Times of Populism: Vision and Contradiction in the History of Economic Ideas by Christopher Holmes.
Simon Winlow and Steve Hall on why the Left must change: Right-wing populism in context. Anton Kager reviews For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe (and more).
