Jacob Edenhofer

Jacob Edenhofer is a first-year DPhil Student in Politics at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College). His main research interests are the comparative political economy of climate policy and right-wing populism in Europe.

Democracy

Behind Populists’ Anti-Technocratic Fervor and Its Consequences for Liberal Democracy

Gabriele Gratton

Populist leaders like United States President Donald Trump are zealously challenging the authority of independent technocrats and judges. This backlash follows decades of steadily increasing delegation of policymaking authority to unelected experts, bureaucratic agencies, and the judiciary. In new research, Gabriele Gratton and Jacob Edenhofer argue that such backlash is a predictable development in political environments where majorities are unstable and new political coalitions frequently favor policies at odds with those crafted by social welfare-maximizing technocrats.

Jacob Edenhofer

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