Cultural Backlash: The Rise of Populist Authoritarianism

Populist challengers have disrupted long established patterns of party competition in many contemporary Western societies, as exemplified by Donald Trump in the US, Marine Le Pen in France, Nigel Farage in the UK, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.

The project for a new book, Cultural Backlash, seeks to analyse the phenomenon of Populist-Authoritarianism and its mass appeal as a style of governance which threatens progressive values as well as core principles and practices of liberal democracy.

Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Bill Kissane, Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics, LSE Department of Government.

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