It’s the Politics Stupid! Sources of Contemporary Populism

• In Event: The Politics of Exclusion

Brief Overview

This paper explains the recent populist surge as a consequence of mainstream parties’ neoliberal convergence since the 1980s, showing how their failure to represent those harmed by globalization reshaped party-system competition across democracies.

Authors

• William M. Kwok, Yale University

• Ian Shapiro, Yale University

• Fernando Augusto Bizzarro, Boston College