I Am the People
Chatterjee, Partha (Columbia University)![I Am the People](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/313/31339592/CHSBZCOP0331339592.jpg)
To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms. Mobilizing ideals of popular sovereignty and the emotional appeal of nationalism, anticolonial movements ushered in a world of nation-states while liberal democracies in Europe guaranteed social rights to their citizens. But as neoliberal techniques shrank the scope of government, politics gave way to technical admi...