Vox Eu Populism

In my contribution to this vox debate i revisit that work in light of recent events and subsequent scholarship.

Vox eu populism. This column part of the vox debate on populism offers a potential explanation for this. What are the drivers of the recent rise of populism. What is populism and how can we quantify its rise. There are essentially two schools of thought on the roots of populism one that focuses on culture and another that focuses on economics.

This suggests that at least in the short term fiscal policy can be an effective tool against the populist backlash. The rise of populism is one of the most important political social and economic phenomena in recent years. Madrid the far right has arrived in spanish politics. This suggests that at least in the short term fiscal policy can be an effective tool against the populist backlash.

In the 2016 presidential election populism became a catchall to describe both donald trump and bernie sanders. In continental europe populist politicians such as matteo salvini and marine le pen are known for their anti eu attitudes. Vox a party founded in 2013 that had suffered one electoral failure after another pulled off a coup on sunday when it won nearly 11 percent of the vote and 12 seats in a regional election in andalusia. This week s european parliament elections will test the strength of far right populism euroskeptic far right parties are attempting to build a coalition to try to remake the eu.

A shift from the traditional class based distinction and divide between left and right to a distinction based on cultural attitudes and education. As noted by rodrik 2019 european economic policy is made increasingly in brussels and frankfurt leading many europeans to push for more national sovereignty. The term populism is often used but rarely understood. This column is a lead commentary in the voxeu debate on populism i ve written about populism before eichengreen 2018 including for vox eichengreen et al.

This column introduces a new vox debate which focuses on four broad questions. Populism was a right wing.