
Voter Turnout Will Decide Europe’s Fate
May 20, 2019 & show how populists can exploit declining participation to succeed in this month's European Parliament election.
Sam van der Staak is Head of the Europe program at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA).
May 20, 2019 & show how populists can exploit declining participation to succeed in this month's European Parliament election.
Huge fiscal and monetary stimulus programs have sparked a growing debate about whether advanced economies may sooner or later experience the sort of rapid price growth last seen a generation ago. While stimulus advocates point to current weak demand and the public’s deeply ingrained low-inflation expectations, anxious hawks fear that a new and dangerous global inflationary consensus may be taking hold.