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Cultural Backlash: The Rise of Populist Authoritarianism

Wednesday 06 December 2017 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Hosted by the Department of Government

TW1.G.01, Tower 1,

Speaker

Professor Pippa Norris

Chair

Dr Bill Kissane

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.

The Department of Government (@LSEGovernment) is home to some of the most internationally respected experts in politics and government; producing influential research that has a global impact on policy, and delivering world-class teaching to our students.

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