The Buzz of Populism and Its Pull on the Economy
By IMFBlog
February 9, 2018
(photo: Berkeley Review)
If you believe the economy can explain the rise of populism, political scientist Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser says it’s a bit more complicated than that.
“If you think about populist radical right parties in Western Europe, the party that gets the most votes is in Switzerland. And the economy in Switzerland is running perfectly!”
Populism has become a bit of a buzz word […]