Economic Policy under Populist Rule

Abstract

The second panel in this section will engage with how policy is shaped by populists in power or how political parties shift their positions on policy issues in unison to the developments in the economic sphere. We engage with, but also try to challenge the new concept of economic populism, namely neo-feudalism, which relates to state capitalist regimes against the backdrop of the fear of economic insecurity. To this end, we will invite papers using both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

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