Interview with Sherrill Stroschein

Identity-based politics has become commonplace in the West, yet it continues to perplex academic and lay audiences alike. Sherril Stroschein, a reader in Politics in the Department of Political Science at University College London, explores these recent developments in her article “Populism, Nationalism, and Party Politics”. She argues that elites are using nationalism and populism as strategies of “mobilizing rhetorical appeals.” In this interview, Stroschein examines the “romance of populism” and what it means for democracies in the future.