"What Is Populism? Enemy of Democracy or Hope for Reform" is a Chuko Shinsho volume that examines populism across Europe, the Americas, and Japan from the perspective of comparative politics. Rather than condemning anti-elite sentiment, exclusionary politics, and criticism of established parties in one dimension, it considers both their tensions with democracy and their capacity to pressure political reform.

A study that rereads a world-shaking political phenomenon beyond the simple divide between democratic threat and reformist hope.