Tag: Jon Dean
Book Review: Populism’s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America by Laura Grattan
‘Populism’ has often been used as a pejorative term for a ‘paranoid’, anti-democratic style of politics. But is this the only way of understanding its history? In Populism’s Power: Radical Grassroots in America, Laura Grattan argues that this neglects a different kind of populism in the USA: democratic, egalitarian, radical, rebellious and unifying. This book offers […]
Book Review: Good times, bad times: The welfare myth of them and us
Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent – healthcare, education, pensions, benefits – is the centre of political and public debate. Good Times, bad times says this debate is dominated by the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare state […]
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