.@AnnaGBusse @didikuo1 @FukuyamaFrancis and I published a report last year called Global Populisms and Their Challenges, with relevance to recent U.S. "events" Get it here: stanford.app.box.com/s/0afiu4963qjy… A few highlights. THREAD 1/
"Democracies are vulnerable to populists in three ways. First, democracy relies on buy-in from both the electoral winners and the electoral losers to respect election results." 2/
"Winners have to constrain themselves: they cannot use the law to persecute their opponents or blatantly skew the rules of the game in their favor." 3/
"The electoral losers have to accept that their loss was legitimate—the result of the wrong appeals or campaigning, rather than electoral fraud. They do so because if the rules are fair, they can still gain office in the future." 4/
"In other words, parties and politicians have faith in the democratic process, even if they are uncertain about the electoral outcomes. This twin commitment lies at the heart of functioning democracies." Last week, we failed at meeting this minimal democratic threshold. END 5/ .
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