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urn:uuid:8c854cfa-26a0-4f9f-a6be-340d988463d8 03 15 9781909890930 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Populism Origins and Alternative Policy Responses 1 B01 Andrés Velasco Professor Andrés Velasco is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Fellow of CEPR and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Earlier he held professorial roles at the Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia University and New York University. He served as the Minister of Finance of Chile be- tween 2006 and 2010. In 2017–18 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. 2 B01 Irene Bucelli Dr Irene Bucelli is a Research Officer at the LSE School of Public Policy and programme coordinator for the Beveridge 2.0: Redefining the Social Contract. She is also a Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (LSE) where her research focuses on multidimensional inequality, poverty and deprivation. 3 A32 Catherine E. De Vries Catherine E. De Vries is Dean of Diversity & Inclusion and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. Her work can be broadly situated in the areas of political behaviour, political economy and EU politics, and has appeared in lead- ing political science journals, such as the American Political Science Review and Annual Review of Political Science. Catherine is currently working on a research project funded through the European Research Council that examines how economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas 4 A32 Sara B. Hobolt Sara B. Hobolt is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. She is the Chair of the European Election Studies (EES), an EU-wide project stud- ying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections. Professor Hobolt has published extensively on elections, referendums, public opinion and European Union politics. Her most recent book (co-authored with Catherine De Vries), Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe, was published by Princeton University Press in 2020. 5 A32 Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff is a Professor in the Department of History at the Central European University. He served as Populismviii President and Rector of CEU between 2016 and 2021, the tur- bulent years which saw CEU’s expulsion from Budapest and its re-establishment in Vienna. Professor Ignatieff came to CEU af- ter serving as Edward R. Murrow Chair of Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also an award-winning writer, teacher, for- mer politician, and historian with a deep knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe 6 A32 Gilat Levy Gilat Levy is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and Economic Theory Programme Co-Director in STICERD, at the London School of Economics. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society and has served as a Council mem- ber for the European Economic Association. Professor Levy specialises in microeconomic theory, political economy and law and economics 7 A32 Ronny Razin Ronny Razin is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His main body of work is in political economy, using economic tools and methods to study political institutions, policy decisions and cultural processes. His research has appeared in leading economics and political science journals, such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Ronny is current- ly working on a research project funded through the European Research Council that examines how information is generated and processed in the political process with implications to the rise of populism 8 A32 Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is the Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He is the Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre LSE. He is a former Head of the Department of Geography and Environment between 2006 and 2009. He was awarded the 2018 ERSA Prize in Regional Science, arguably the highest prize in regional science, and has been a holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and of a prestigious Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award 9 A32 David Soskice David Soskice is School Professor of Political Science and Economics at the London School of Economics. He taught macroeconomics at Oxford (Mynors Fellow emeritus, University College) from 1967 to 1990, was then research direc- tor/professor at the Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin (1990–2005), and subsequently Research Professor of Comparative Political Economy at Oxford and senior research fellow at Nuffield College, and Research Professor of Political Science at Duke. He is currently working with Wendy Carlin (UCL) on tractable macroeconomic models; with Nicola Lacey on the comparative political economy of crime and punishment; and with Torben Iversen on advanced capitalist democracies. 01 eng 00 161 03 23 Democracy; Populism; Identity politics; Liberal democracy 23 Economics 12 KC 10 POL007000 12 JPA 23 Liberal democracy 23 Political science 23 Identity politics 23 Populism 23 Democracy 01 06 03 00 Populist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively weakening or coarsening government capabilities. By positing an acute contrast between the will of the people and established elites, and advocating simplistic policy solutions careless of minority rights, populists have challenged the development and even the maintenance of liberal democracy on many fronts.Social scientists’ attention to populism has grown rapidly, although it remains somewhat fragmented across disciplines. Many questions remain. Are populism’s causes economic or cultural? National or local? Is populism a threat to liberal democracy? If so, what kind of threat? And what can be done about it? Employing a range of conceptual toolkits and methods, this interdisciplinary book addresses in a critical and evidence-based way the most common diagnoses of populism’s causes, consequences and policy antidotes. 04 00 1. Introduction Andrés Velasco and Irene Bucelli 2. Populism and Identity Politics Andrés Velasco 3. Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy Michael Ignatieff 4. Challenger Parties and Populism Catherine E. De Vries and Sara B. Hobolt 5. The Rise of Populism and the Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter Andrés Rodríguez-Pose 6. Social Media and Political Polarisation Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin 7. The Technological Revolution, Segregation, and Populism – A Long-Term Strategic Response David Soskice LSE Press 01 LSE Press 04 01 20220809 02 WORLD 06 15 9781909890930 06 15 9781909890930 WORLD 09 LSE Press 20 01