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Ulrike Guérot

Ulrike Guérot is professor and director of the Department for European Policy and the study of Democracy at the Donau-University in Krems, Austria. She is also founder and director of the European Democracy Lab at the European School of Governance in Berlin. She writes about European Democracy and global Europe, has taught at renowned universities in Europe and the US and has 20 years experience.Her new book "Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie" (Why Europe Needs to Become a Republic. A Political Utopia) has just been published.

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These comments on the topical subject of populism have been gathered by the University of Sydney’s Sydney Democracy Network and its Democracy Futures team. SDN is a global network of researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy. The comments form part of a longer series on populism on The Conversation. Populism is everywhere on the rise. Why is this happening? Why are the peddlers of populism proving so popular? Are there deep forces driving the spread of their style of politics, and what, if anything, has populism to do with democracy? Is populism democracy’s essence, as some maintain? Is the new populism therefore to be welcomed, harnessed and “mainstreamed” in support of more democracy? …