Session 1: Politics and Populism: What is Populism?

Around the world, from Italy to Brazil, from Hungary to the United States, populist candidates and governments are fundamentally changing the political landscape. In this course, Yascha Mounk -- Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, and Associate Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies -- explores the nature of populism; investigate whether populism poses an existential threat to liberal democracy; explore the causes of the populist rise; and discuss what strategies might allow non-populist political actors to push back. He is joined by Daniel Ziblatt of Harvard University. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to see more lectures and mini-courses.