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How Can Transatlantic Policymakers Confront Rising Populism?

In the last decade, populist-inspired parties of both the left and right have enjoyed success across western Europe—from the Finns Party in Finland to Podemos in Spain to the Independence Party in Britain—just as both Democratic and Republican candidates in the United States have taken up more populist appeals. Populist parties and movements, whether of the right or left, claim to represent the interests of a homogeneous, pure, and virtuous people as against an evil, corrupt elite. T

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Julia Lynch is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the politics of inequality and social policy in the rich democracies, particularly in the countries of western Europe.