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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

William G. Howell

Has American democracy’s long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-government—and if democracy is to be saved, the causes...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein summarized the book's argument that a sense that government no longer works creates fertile ground for populist authoritarians like Trump.

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There's a book by William Howell and Terry Moe, a political scientist, called Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. They basically make this argument that one of the things that creates f...

— Episode: How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbl...

Episode: How Liberals — Yes, Liberals — Are Hobbling Govern...

Ezra Klein summarized the book's argument that a sense that government no longer works creates fertile ground for populist authoritarians like Trump.

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There's a book by William Howell and Terry Moe, a political scientist, called Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. They basically make this argument that one of the things that creates fertile ground for populist authoritarians, which you see in many different countries but Trump represents here, is this sense that government doesn't really work anymore.

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