When Populism Can be Good: A Conversation with Pepper Culpepper
In this special podcast episode with Pepper Culpepper, we discuss the latest article entitled, When Populism Can be Good, jointly written by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee. This discussion reframes populism as a differentiated and politically consequential phenomenon rather than a uniformlyanti-democratic force. It distinguishes between populism rooted in political failure, which often turns exclusionary and anti-institutional, and populism grounded in economic unfairness, which can mobilize more inclusive, redistributive demands. Pepper’s argument suggests that whilepopulism can act as a…
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