Social Europe Podcast: The emotional underpinnings of populism

Peter A. Hall, the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies and a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, was recently interviewed on the Social Europe podcast.

The episode was hosted by Henning Meyer, the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Social Europe, with the pair discussing how perceptions of fairness and economic uncertainty have fueled populism.

You watch the full episode on YouTube or read the transcription here.

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