#5 - Populism vs. Liberal Democracy - w/ Menaldo and Wittstock

<p>In this episode of the <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/">Political Economy Forum </a>Podcast, <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/victor-menaldo/">Professor Victor Menaldo</a> and <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/nicolas-wittstock/">Nicolas Wittstock</a> discuss the meaning and virtues of Liberal Democracy and the political earthquakes that Populists have provoked across contemporary democracies.</p> <p>The conversation mentions works by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Social-Orders-Conceptual-Interpreting/dp/1107646995">North, Wallis, and Weingast</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Democracies-Die-Steven-Levitsky/dp/1524762938">Levitsky and Ziblatt</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjhubOi8ITsAhUCs54KHcXDBKYQFjABegQIChAD&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nber.org%2Fpapers%2Fw10952&amp;usg=AOvVaw26evxDqvaP96h1dXcjC73O">John Wallis</a>, <a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/andrea-mitchell-center/cas-mudde-populism-twenty-first-century">Cas Mudde</a>, <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/working-paper-6-magistro-and-menaldo/">Magistro and Menaldo</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Choosing-Groups-Analytical-Politics-Revisited/dp/1107699622/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=choosing+in+groups&amp;qid=1601063674&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Munger and Munger</a>, as well as a <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/op-ed-4/">New York Times op-ed by Victor Menaldo</a> and <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/op-ed-2-2/">Seattle Times op-ed by Menaldo</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>This podcast is produced by <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/matthew-dagele/">Matthew Dagele</a>, <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/morgan-wack-2/">Morgan Wack</a>, and <a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/nicolas-wittstock/">Nicolas Wittstock</a>. Our theme music was created by Ted Long.</p> <p>Any questions or feedback,