Draining the swamp: understanding the crisis in mainstream politics as a crisis of the state
Innes, A.
(2017).
Draining the swamp: understanding the crisis in mainstream politics as a crisis of the state.
Slavic Review,
76(S1), S30-S38.
https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.155
(2017).
Draining the swamp: understanding the crisis in mainstream politics as a crisis of the state.
Slavic Review,
76(S1), S30-S38.
https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2017.155
This paper examines Poland, Hungary, the UK and the US the most surprising cases of populist reaction. It argues that the social polarization caused by the failures of hyper-liberal reforms to the state, and the association of Social Democratic parties with those reforms, has provoked alienation from liberal democratic politics.