Thread by @Yascha_Mounk

After two years of building and leading an amazing team @InstituteGC, it’s time to focus my energies on the U.S. I’ll have some exciting announcements about my next steps soon. In the meanwhile, I wanted to share some of the great work the team has done so far.

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Our focus has been on understanding populism and designing a principled set of ambitious policies that can combat its causes. Our papers range from tech to housing, and from immigration to foreign policy.

Here's a systematic look at the rising strength of populist parties across Europe.

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Here's a great paper on how liberal democracies should respond to the growing power of authoritarian and/or populist powers.

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Here's a framework for how to think about both the opportunities and the perils tech poses for the world.

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Here's an ambitious set of policies to tackle the severe housing shortages in major metropolitan areas from a progressive perspective.

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Here's a great paper on undrestanding the causes for the rise of populism, and taking them seriously without giving up on our principles.
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Here are some broad principles for how to think about regulating tech.

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Here's an account of the objectives that migration policies should have in liberal democracies--and how to achieve them without giving succor to the populists.

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And there’s lots more to come, including the troubling findings from a first-of-its-kind global database of the effects of populism.

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So please sign up to the team’s newsletter here, keep following their great work (and watch this space for my next steps)!

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