The Science of Politics

How the Plutocrats Win from the Populist Right


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The Republican Party runs populist culturally conservative campaigns, but its policymaking mainly benefits the already well-off. In a time of rising economic inequality, how do they get away with that? Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson find that Republicans have to ramp up the outrage stoking due to their lack of broad policy appeals. The Republican Party’s economic positioning is internationally extreme and threatens to undermine US democracy. In this conversational edition, we assess plutocratic populism and its consequences.
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