Contemporary US Populism in Comparative Perspective

Kirk Hawkins studies populism and Latin American politics. He wrote Venezuela's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2010), co-authored Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge, 2010), and co-edited The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory, and Analysis (2019). He currently directs Team Populism. Levente Littvay researches the psychology of populism, survey and quantitative methodology. He is an academic co-convener of the European Consortium for Political Research Methods Schools, and Team Populism's head of Team Survey.

• 1. Introduction; 2. The concept of populism: putting leaders in context; 3. The causes of populism: explaining the victory with Ethan Busby (Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, US); 4. The consequences of populism and how to mitigate them; 5. Conclusion; References.