Author: Ben Margulies | Journal of Democracy

Ben Margulies is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, where he works on the European Research Council’s Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty Project. He earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Essex in 2014.

January 2018, Volume 29, Issue 1

Exchange: Nativists Are Populists, Not Liberals

Ben Margulies

Takis Pappas argues that certain nativist parties of the populist right should be counted as liberal-democratic. This is a mistake; these parties do not truly merit that name.