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New political divide on both sides of Atlantic: populists v cosmopolitans

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

“Disaster narrowly averted” was the British Guardian newspaper’s view of the defeat – by only 31,000 votes out of 4.64 million – of the far right Freedom Party in Austria’s presidential elections this past weekend.

But it is hard to escape the conclusion that varied forms of populism – whether...

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