The Pitfalls of Strongman Populism
Growing anti-establishment sentiment in Western countries reflects an urgent need to compensate or assist those who have lost out economically. This is a painful lesson that post-communist countries learned the hard way during the 1990s, when the push for fast reforms created the conditions for autocratic leaders to take over.
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LONDON – The year 2016 showed that the durability of liberal democracy can no longer be taken for granted, even in the West. In fact, Harvard University political scientist Yascha Mounk’s analysis of World Values Survey data shows that, in many Western countries, public confidence in democracy has been declining for quite some time.