Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges — from both the left and the right. The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, only months after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, signaled a dramatic shift in the politics of the rich democracies.

In Anti-System Politics, Jonathan Hopkin traces the evolution of this shift and argues that it is a long-term...