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"What’s Happening in the U.S. and in European Countries Is a Reaction Against the Political Class"
"Despite some specifics on the national level, I would say that all the populist regimes and leaders share common characteristics," says José Ugaz, the...
“There Are Good Grounds for Being Very Cynical About Western Elites”
Ahead of his visit to the Stigler Center on October 25, Edward Luce, Washington columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Retreat of...
“In Just About Every Generation, Many People Thought the American Republic was on the Verge of Collapse”
The second installment of our two-part interview with Harvard Business School professor David Moss about his recent book Democracy: A Case Study. "One of the reasons...
How to Defeat Populist Plutocrats? “Build a Counter-Narrative”
Beppe Severgnini, one of the most influential journalists in Italy, talks to ProMarket about what the U.S. can learn from Italy on how to defeat...
Can “Productive Tensions” Save American Democracy Again?
This is the first installment of a two-part interview we had with David Moss about his recently published book Democracy: A Case Study, which contains...
Bo Rothstein Explains Why He Resigned From Oxford Over Donor's Link to Donald Trump
In an interview with ProMarket, Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein explains why he decided to resign from the Blavatnik School of Government after learning...
Raghuram Rajan: Populist Nationalism Is “the First Step Toward Crony Capitalism”
The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India discussed the “concentrated and devastating” impact that technology and trade had on blue-collar communities, the anger...
Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.
In the first part of...
The Big Picture: Clientelism, Plutocracy, and Democratization
Why is the electoral process not enough to rid nations of pathological political distortions such as cronyism and corruption?
This is the second installment of ProMarket’s...
Populist Plutocrats as a Political Phenomenon
How can a rich man successfully pose as a representative of the poor and the disenfranchised and become the leader of a populist movement?...
