Jan-Werner Mueller
Jan-Werner Mueller is a professor of politics at Princeton University and a fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna. His latest book is What is Populism?
Jan-Werner Mueller is a professor of politics at Princeton University and a fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna. His latest book is What is Populism?
The present is not remotely comparable to the interwar period, and today’s populists are not fascists. But the lesson from that era still holds: the choices made by established conservative elites, as… read more
British Prime Minister Theresa May has embraced the revocation of individuals’ citizenship as a counterterrorism measure. In fact, no country has gone further than May's UK in normalizing this immoral… read more
Barack Obama was right to say that democracy itself was on the ballot in the just-concluded US presidential election. But, with Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Hillary Clinton, do we now know for… read more
After just three months in power, Poland's new government appears committed to establishing what critics are calling an “illiberal democracy.” But the description is deeply misleading – and in a way t… read more
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's victory in Turkey’s first direct presidential election is no surprise. But, given his polarizing leadership as Prime Minister, what accounts for his political staying power?
The Greek government’s crackdown on the country’s far-right Golden Dawn party has revived a vexing question that seemed to have disappeared with the Cold War’s end. Is there a place within liberal dem… read more
Nicolás Maduro’s narrow victory in Venezuela’s presidential election raises an important question: Can populism thrive without a genuinely popular, charismatic leader, or are movements like Chávismo d… read more
In recent years, the EU – or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe – has been subjecting its weaker members to social and political “stress tests," with varying results. Now, Eur… read more
Ordinary Europeans long trusted elites with the business of democracy – and even seemed to prefer unelected elites. If they now want to modify the social contract, change ought to be based on a clear,… read more
