Foreign Affairs committee  I agree. This is one of the reasons why sometimes the critique of populists and the populist radical right is so hard. No liberal democracy is perfect and several slip up regularly. What you actually see is that, overall, populists do particularly well in countries that slip up r

Foreign Affairs committee  I think both. Clearly, populist parties have been growing, particularly in the 21st century. However, their sentiments.... Again, we speak primarily about the populist radical right and the integration of nativism and authoritarianism rather than necessarily anti-establishment se

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think it's necessarily a matter of intelligence. I'm also very skeptical about so-called “fake news” and the better informed supporting liberal democratic policies and the less informed supporting populist policies. I think a lot has to do with self-perceived economic and

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, for the simple reason that EU politics is about power politics, and the EPP would still want them in.

Foreign Affairs committee  Obviously, I don't have the right answer because I've been shouting several answers for the last few decades. I think what is absolutely crucial is that the response is not aimed at defeating the populist. If we did defeat the populist, we would still have that distrust. We woul

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. These are good but also complex questions. Simplistically stated, European elections have always been primarily domestic elections in the sense that the issues being discussed are domestic issues rather than European. This has changed a little bit, particula

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it is success, to be honest. I think social democracy by and large has given in to its own success. Established welfare states have achieved most of their original program. Pretty similarly, the neo-liberals pretty much established ideological hegemony where everyone acce

Foreign Affairs committee  The term “forbearance” is used in the Levitsky-Ziblatt book. By and large, it's argued that politicians should use that to protect overreach. I think one of the things that populism shows, to a certain extent, is how feeble many systems are. Many liberal democratic systems are s

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much and thanks to the committee for giving me the opportunity to speak here today. Given that we study the same thing, we have quite a lot of overlap so what I will do is focus on some points that Yascha hasn't mentioned and elaborate on some of the points he di