Global Leadership Crisis, Rising Inequalities, and Culture Wars
Contestations of the Liberal Script in North America
Online Conference at the University of Wyoming and the Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany, and Laramie WY, Sept. 14-16, 2020
Monday, September 14, 2020
Day 1: Session 3
Is American Populism ‘Exceptional’? Global and Historical Comparisons
Chair: Thomas Risse
Discussant: Mark Aspinwall
• Marcia Pally (NYU): Why is Populism Persuasive? A culturally situated case study of American populism, left and right, and the role of evangelicals
• Nicolas Michalski and Narina Nunes (UWYO): An Examination of the Persuasive Effects of Political Rhetoric on Interpersonal Behavior
• Robert Benson (SCRIPTS): From Trump to Sanders: The Paranoid Style Revisited
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