
The Future LIES EAST: Post-Communist Party System as Laboratories and Harbingers
Professor Kevin Deegan-Krause
Fall 2017-18
(12/07/2017)
We have come to associate the word populism with the right in Western Europe and with the left in Latin America, but in Eastern Europe new political movements advance not from the left or the right but from the outside, as dissatisfied citizens rally around non-political celebrities to challenge what they see as corrupt status quo. As the trend-setter in this new political style, Eastern Europe offers insights into an increasingly widespread variation on populism.