Checks and Balances
Liberal Democracy Is Stronger Than Trump’s Populism

Why Trump isn’t the threat to America’s liberal institutions that many fear.

Appeared in: Volume 13, Number 4 | Published on: December 11, 2017
Kurt Weyland is the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and author of several books, most recently Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America Since the Revolutions of 1848. Raúl L. Madrid is professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and author of various articles and books, including The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America.
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