Takis S. Pappas

Takis S. Pappas is the author of Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (2014) and Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (2019), and the coeditor (with Hanspeter Kriesi) of European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (2015).

April 2019, Volume 30, Issue 2

Populists in Power

The historical record since 1945 gives us a picture of how populists operate once they hold political power. The record shows that populism is inimical to liberal democracy, and not a corrective to some of its failings.

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April 2013, Volume 24, Issue 2

Why Greece Failed

Greece was an early success story of the “third wave,” but since the 2008 financial crisis, it has become a poster child for the pains of austerity and unrest. Its troubles at one level are fiscal and economic, but there is a political dimension that may be even more critical.