Sales and Market Bullets

• TIMELY THEMES FOR A CHALLENGING WORLD: A comprehensive and accessible treatise on the threat populism poses to democratic governance and the liberal international order.


• A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: The book looks at leaders in Turkey, Poland, the Philippines, Mexico, and Venezuela — this is very much a global trend and not confined to the Western world.


• THE BOOK WE NEED NOW: Populism today is a globally networked, culturally interconnected phenomenon based on a shared culture of grievance and an anti-liberal nationalistic worldview. To challenge the threat to democracy this presents, this book examines the rise of populism beyond the U.S. and Britain and urges the international community to place the looming confrontation between populism and liberalism at the top of the global agenda.


• EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS: Froese and Drache have paid particular attention to the enormous shifts that happened institutionally and economically since 1995. Both have written extensively in their academic fields on this subject.


• FOR READERS OF: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum, and The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche.

Audience

• Readers of the Financial Times and the Economist


• People interested in political theory and politics


• Undergrad poli sci students/professors/TAs

Daniel Drache is professor emeritus of political science and senior research fellow at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University in Toronto. He is the author of over twenty books on social policy and international affairs. He lives in Toronto.

Marc D. Froese the Professor of Political Science and the Founding Director of the International Studies Program at Burman University in Alberta. He is the author of three books and dozens of articles on international trade and political economy. He lives in Lacombe, AB.

“Daniel Drache and Marc Froese have written an essential primer on modern populist authoritarianism. They unpack its origins, its internal dynamics, and its likely evolution, demonstrating why it poses a mortal threat to liberal democracy. We can’t defend the freedoms and institutions we treasure if we don’t accurately understand why they’re in danger. This book is a vital contribution to that defense.” — Thomas Homer-Dixon, executive director, Cascade Institute, author of Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril

“Written by political scientists Daniel Drache of York University and Marc Froese of Burman University in Lacombe, this engaging and disturbing book is a warning that “the past decade will be remembered by historians for the fact that the populist insurgency held a knife to the throat of liberal democracy and got away with it.” — Alberta Views