Authoritarian Populism and Liberal Democracy

“Crewe’s and Sanders’ timely book enriches the academic literature devoted to populism. One of its main merits is its clarity. … the book is perfectly intelligible and its chapters make perfect sense whether read in succession or separately. …this panoramic volume is on the whole enlightening and will allow specialist and non-specialist advanced readers to better grasp the history, mechanisms and consequences of authoritarian populism in the UK, the US and beyond and to envisage what possible responses might be.” (Vincent Latour,Caliban, French Journal of English Studies, Vol. 63, 2020)

Ivor Crewe is Master of University College, University of Oxford, UK. He is former Professor of Government and Vice Chancellor at the University of Essex, UK, and has authored numerous publications on elections, parties and public opinion in the UK. He is co-author of The Blunders of our Governments (with A. King, 2013).

David Sanders is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Essex, UK. He has authored numerous books and articles on various aspects of UK and comparative politics, including (with various co-authors) Losing an Empire, Finding a Role (1990 and 2017) and The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain (2013).