A New Minority? Understanding Today’s Populism
22 March 2017, 18:45
Date and time: Wednesday, 22 March at 18.45. Doors open at 18.15
The event is open to: Alumni and friends (paying and non-paying)
Registration deadline: Tuesday, 21 March at 19.00
Once at the middle of European and American societies, today's white working class people have drifted to the margins and are reshaping the political landscape. How did this happen? Roland Freudenstein, Policy Director at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, will join Justin Gest, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and LSE alumnus, in an in-depth discussion on populism.
Professor Justin Gest will report findings from original surveys and full-immersion fieldwork among the white working class people of once thriving industrial cities in the United States and the United Kingdom to draw conclusions about the origins of Donald Trump's presidency, Brexit, and the prospect of a greater rightward shift in upcoming European elections. Roland Freudenstein will offer comments reflecting on the European centre-right’s answer to the rise of populism.Dr. Nicolas Jonathan Beger, founder of Q3T, will moderate the discussion. The event, kindly hosted by Open Society European Policy Institute, will be followed by drinks.
About the speakers:
Justin Gest (LSE, MSc in International Relations, 2006, and PhD in Government, 2010) is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. His most recent work is "The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality" (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Roland Freudenstein is Policy Director at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. He has contributed to debates and published extensively on European integration, international security, German-Polish relations, global support for democracy and political change in the Middle East.
About the moderator:
Dr. Nicolas Jonathan Beger, founder of Q3T, is an ICF certified coach, and a certified mediator and trainer. He has 13 years of management experience in high-level leadership positions in the international NGO sector (including Director of Amnesty International European Institutions Office), and five years in academic teaching and research.
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