Tea Party and populism (Erin Jenne and Levente Littvay)
Channel: Team Populism
Date: 2021-02-22

Erin Jenne (Central European University) and Levente Littvay discuss their 2014 work on the Tea Party and how it relates to today's populism. See also the Monkey Cage piece on this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/19/the-tea-partys-anti-washington-consensus/ 

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