Archive for: political elites

Interview with Colin Crouch, British sociologist: “Post-democracy – although all the forms of democracy continue to happen, the choices are increasingly artificial and managed from above”

Interview with Colin Crouch, British sociologist: “Post-democracy – although all the forms of democracy continue to happen, the choices are increasingly artificial and managed from above”

In the last few years, public discontent grew more and more, producing large-scale protests and surprising electoral results, like Brexit and Donald Trump’s election as […]

 
 

Interview with Joseph Daul, EPP President: “Populism has changed the style of political communication by attacking the EU as the only scapegoat for all their problems in the world”

Interview with Joseph Daul, EPP President: “Populism has changed the style of political communication by attacking the EU as the only scapegoat for all their problems in the world”

Rising populism across Europe might mean the end of the European project, as more and more politicians blame the European Union for the problems encountered […]