“Political alliances realign, friends change, and parties break up."

@anneapplebaum gets our Policy and Practice seminar off to a great start by providing us with an overview to the shift in the right.

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Professor Nadia Urbinati analyses the new form of representation which means that leaders act as though they are in a “permanent electoral campaign” to prove to their followers that they are not the government.

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@RoryStewartUK evaluates the link between our moral evaluation (whether politicians are good people) and the way we think of politics.

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Have people lost hope that there can even be a good politician? #PopulismSPP
@RoryStewartUK outlines that populist governments find big issues extremely challenging to solve. The notion that they are the people who are fighting the establishment means they often lack expertise and prove unwilling to engage with the detail. #PopulismSPP
"Populism is the enemy of responsibility"

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The appeal of the immoral politician.

@anneapplebaum evaluates the idea that for people who have lost faith and are no longer invested in the institutions of democracy, the politician who is promising to smash up the system is attractive.

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