Rise of authoritarian populism

Ronald Wintrobe

Chapter 101 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 2025, pp 722-728 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Regimes like Orban's Hungary, Erdogan's Turkey, Modi's India, and Trump's second term have elements of both dictatorship and democracy. There is a vast literature about populism, but very little has been written on the rationality question: why support an authoritarian leader? In my other two chapters (27 and 28) in this volume, I explained the fall of democracy using the idea that people typically desire to belong to an Imaginary Community and that democratic liberalism increasingly is incapable of providing this. Here, I look at the rise of populist authoritarianism as a way of providing belonging that liberal democracy cannot match.

Keywords: Democracy; Populism; Dictatorship; Authoritarianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802207743
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