The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288912 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William A Galston (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2018.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W2802542261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 123 |
| References cited | 3 |
Across the West, economic dislocation and demographic change have triggered a demand for strong leaders. This surge of populism is more than an emotional backlash; it encourages a political structure that threatens liberal democracy. While populism accepts principles of popular sovereignty and majoritarianism, it is skeptical about constitutionalism and liberal protections for individuals. Moreover, populists’ definition of “the people” as homogeneous cannot serve as the basis for a modern democracy, which stands or falls with the protection of pluralism. Although this resurgent tribalism may draw strength from the incompleteness of life in liberal society, the liberal-democratic system uniquely harbors the power of self-correction, the essential basis for needed reforms
Authoritarianism · Constitutionalism · Culturalism · Democracy · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Liberalism · Pluralism (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Skepticism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Tribalism · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Human rights and populist wrongs
Democracy as a frame
Democracy in Hard Places
When the People Rule
Political Leadership in Africa
Protegendo a democracia do povo
Tecnocracia y populismo en libre competencia
Positioning analysis of Spanish politicians through their Twitter posts versus Spanish public opinion
The populist people and mediatized populism
Social media, education, and the rise of populist Euroscepticism
Revisiting international human rights treaties
Motivations for paying regard to children’s right in relation to democracy and education
Globalization, international asymmetries and democracy
Some Reflections on the Stability of Liberal Democracy
Citizenship education under authoritarian Islamic nationalism
Inequalities in the disruption of paid work during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Partisan Selective Exposure in Times of Political and Technological Upheaval
Discussion networks in Turkey
The limits of EU liberal norm diffusion
How incumbents create uneven patterns of competition during autocratization
Populismo como democracia iliberal
A hibrid társadalmi terek és a vallásos tapasztalat individualizációja a nyugati civilizációban
Esse est audiri
Following the Leader Against Democracy? Evidence From the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Election
Support for (liberal) democracy among authoritarian, populist, and radical Western Europeans
When Will an Authoritarian Regime Concede? A Framework for Strategic Campaigning through Issue Selection and Framing
Opponents of immigration in Ireland
What drives citizens’ evaluation of democratic performance? The interaction of citizens’ democratic knowledge and institutional level of democracy
A cultural theory of support for populism
The rise of the Reform party in Britain—Modeling Reform voting in the 2024 general election
Polarization
Epistocracy and populism
Ultra‐orthodoxy and selective voluntarism
A Boat Load Too Many
How Populism and Polarization Affect Europe’s Liberal Democracies
Rebuilding Trust in Broken Systems? Populist Party Success and Citizens’ Trust in Democratic Institutions
Disentangling How Populism and Radical Host Ideologies Shape Citizens’ Conceptions of Democratic Decision-Making
Framing the Judiciary
Explaining the Populist Right in the Neoliberal West
Just a “Mouthpiece of Biased Elites?” Populist Party Sympathizers and Trust in Czech Public Service Media
Toward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United States
Populism as Parody
Dissensus over liberal democracy in Europe
Personalism and the Trajectories of Populist Constitutions
Substantiating EU citizenship
The strange bedfellows of populism and liberalism
Fidesz, liberal democracy and the fundamental law in Hungary
Survival and status in the liberal international order
Popular sovereignty facing the deep state. The rule of recognition and the powers of the people
Pride and prejudice
Introduction to special issue
Popular support for military intervention and anti-establishment alternatives in Tunisia
Populism and crisis
Which democracy do political parties want? The role of party personalism
Sharing political nostalgia in Hungary is yearning for the past successful on social media
The ‘Will of the People’
Women in Red
Populist Words Speak Louder? Ideology-Inconsistent Personalization and Voting for Populist Candidates
Erosion of Competition Policy in the Age of Populism
Populism meets EU Foreign policy
The unproductiveness of political conflict in education
The kiss of death. Public service media under right-wing populist attack
Multilevel analysis of ethnic clustering across local schools
The system is broken
Dissatisfied But Still Democratic
Replacement migration on the edge of the European Union
Neo-illiberalism
Are Anti-Political-Establishment Parties a Peril for European Democracy? A Longitudinal Study from 1950 till 2017
Immigration and Public Support for Political Systems in Europe
Political group formation in the European parliament
What they say and what they do
Regionalism and liberal nationalism in the European Union. A case Sui Generis
Democratic Illiberalism, Anti-Populism and Cultures of Opposition to Populist Parties in Europe
Party decline or social transformation? Economic, institutional and sociological change and the rise of anti-political-establishment parties in Western Europe
Populism as a political trust booster? Populist support and degrees of political power in Central Europe
Inclusive rhetoric, exclusive boundaries
The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe
European democracy in action? The 2024 European Parliament elections
Majority Minority
Illiberal Democracy and the Struggle on the Right
The Instinct for Freedom
Lacking control – analysing the demand side of populist party support
When populists win
Decolonising sociology through popular culture-music research
A Frommian perspective on the socio-psychological structure of post-fascism in liberal democracies
Inclusion and social contracts in Tunisia
Far-right populism in alt-tech
The discursive logics of online populism
The crisis of the democratic imaginary
Jeremy Waldron and the Circumstances of Politics
Partisan Sentiments and Political Trust
Populists in Government
Cure, Poison or Placebo? The Consequences of Populist and Radical Party Success for Representative Democracy
Authoritarian Drift, Variegated Paths
Practices of Transformative Populism
Which Values Distinguish Supporters of Radical Right Populist Parties From Their Rivals? Political Authoritarianism As a Key Ideological Feature
How Unusual Was 2016? Flipping Counties, Flipping Voters, and the Education–Party Correlation since 1952
Walking the Talk
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy
| Unique citing works | 123 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 15,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 121 |