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Does the experience in the US, Germany, and Brazil reflect the Australian experience?
How have institutional structures insulated centrist parties against new political threats?
Can the rise of anger captured by the populists be effectively tested, and has Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani shown the way?
Dr Rüçhan Kaya joins Mark and Marija to discuss the drift towards popularism and nationalism in liberal democratic countries.
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Dr Rüçhan Kaya is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Austin College in Texas and the Richardson Chair for Comparative Politics and International Relations.
Dr Marija Taflaga is the Director of the ANU Centre for the Study of Australian Politics and a Lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations.
Prof Mark Kenny is the Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.
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