Tracing the Rise of Populism

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With The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Professor Jane Green FAcSS FAAAS and Richard Foster

Join us for a timely conversation exploring one of the defining political stories of our era: why populism is on the rise. The Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP and Professor Jane Green bring together political and academic perspectives on the origins of populism's growth. Liam Byrne draws on his new book, Why Populists Are Winning – And How to Beat Them, tracing populism's roots to a broken economic promise: as wage growth has stalled since the financial crisis, politics has become increasingly zero-sum, with people scrambling to protect what little they have. Jane Green brings her research on how economic insecurity and social fragmentation are driving voters towards populist movements.

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