Populism in a Global Perspective: Who Needs Democracy?

By Katarina Ristić, Therese Mager, Constanze Blum and Man Zhang The rise of populism in the “West” has prompted extensive academic research which often appears oblivious to populism’s historical origins and non-western genealogies. Focusing on populism as a threat to western democracies, much of the research on populism neglects variations and the different contexts within which populism operates in different world regions. In our seminar “Critically Engaging with Populism as a Global Phenom...