Pepper Culpepper

Pepper Culpepper is Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
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April 2026, Volume 37, Issue 2

When Populism Can Be Good

Populism is too often treated as if it is all one thing. But what if populist politics and democratic backsliding didn’t have to go together? A closer look reveals two kinds of populism, one of which is less threatening to liberal democracy.