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INTRODUCTION: POPULISM IN QUESTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2022

Sayantan Ghosal  and
Adrian Pabst
Sayantan Ghosal
Affiliation:
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
Adrian Pabst*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
*
*Corresponding author. Email: a.pabst@niesr.ac.uk
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Much of the media coverage in relation to populism has focused either on populist moments like the Brexit vote or on populist leaders such as Donald Trump or Boris Johnson. Meanwhile, the academic literature on populism is divided between two broad approaches. First, an emphasis in economics on policy (e.g. Dornbusch and Edwards, 1992) and, second, an accentuation in political science on ideology (e.g. Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017). Both approaches capture important aspects, including the rejection of orthodox monetary and fiscal policy positions and a repudiation not only of established elites but also of pluralism and some of the key institutions on which the rule of law and democracy depend.

Type
Special Issue Articles: The Political Economy of Populism
Information
National Institute Economic Review , Volume 259: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POPULISM , Winter 2022 , pp. 7 - 9
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of National Institute Economic Review

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