History’s Postscript: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

by Jan-Werner Müller, World Politics Review

Contrary to what has often been alleged, Francis Fukuyama’s argument in “The End of History” that only liberal democracy can fulfill basic human aspirations for freedom and dignity has not been so obviously disproven. But democracy does have a serious rival today: populism.

8 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2014

About the author

Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University, where he also directs the Project in the History of Political Thought. His previous books include What is Populism? (2016) and Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (2011). He writes for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books.