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A Tale of Two Nations? Populism, Plutocrats, and the Managerial State

A Tale of Two Nations? Populism, Plutocrats, and the Managerial State

April 03, 2020 | by William Hay

Michael Lind’s The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite addresses the growing gap between the successful and those left behind in the United States and in other developed Western societies. Contemporary “demagogic populism,” he argues, is a symptom of the disease of technocratic, neoliberal elitism, the cure for which is a return to democratic pluralism.

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