This panel presents the recent book Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond by our guests Adnan Naseemullah and Pradeep Chhibber in a conversation moderated by Kellogg faculty fellow Susan Ostermann. The book looks at the causes, dynamics, and consequences of populist politics in South Asia and beyond. It argues that populist mobilizations are rooted in crises of representation, and populism is a symptom, not an underlying cause, of democratic malaise.
Cosponsored by the South Asia Working Group and the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.
Presenters:
Adnan Naseemullah
Reader (Professor) in International Politics
King's College London
Pradeep Chhibber
Professor and Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Susan Ostermann
Assistant Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs
Kellogg Faculty Fellow