Research by Miriam Juan-Torres Gonzalez from our Democracy & Belonging Forum was covered in this Berkeley News feature, titled, "There's a term for Trump's political style: authoritarian populism."
It reads: "Reading global political headlines over the past decade, Míriam Juan-Torres González and her colleagues at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) saw a pattern. Around the world, politicians were fearmongering, scapegoating marginalized groups for a host of societal problems, and chipping away at democratic norms, like persecuting journalists, in the process. Internally, researchers at OBI’s Democracy and Belonging Forum began trying to label this phenomenon so they could understand how such leaders operate and eventually, figure out how to prevent their consolidation of power."
