Low-cost Democracy in a Brave Illiberal World

Abstract

The new populism strikes on an assumed iliberalism, oriented towards the „needs“ of the so-called popular categories, being matched by a strategy of systematic dissemination of „fake news“ facilitated by the perverse effects induced by new media.

Keywords

• Illiberalism
• democracy
• populism
• political parties
• ideology
• people
• populist challenge
• right wing extremism
• post-democracy