Students! Can We Talk: Is populism popular?

Christopher Phelan is a professor and former chair of the department of economics at the University of Minnesota. He has previously taught economics at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves as an advisor to the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He received a BA in economics and computer science from Duke University, and an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. His research agenda focuses on dynamic contracting, government reputation, game theory, monetary economics, and macroeconomics.His work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Economic Theory, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Howard Lavine is Associate Dean of the Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Arleen C. Carlson Professor of Political Science and Psychology. His work centers on the psychological underpinnings of mass political behavior. He is the author of Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012), and the editor of The Feeling, Thinking Citizen (Routledge, 2017) and Political Psychology (Sage, 2010). He has published articles in The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He is the past editor of the journal Political Psychology and current editor of the journal Advances in Political Psychology. His current work focuses on human rights, populism, partisan asymmetries, and the intersection of race and political context on public opinion.