William Riker’s influential Liberalism against Populism (1982) argues that populism is the enemy of freedom. This essay questions Riker’s conclusion that populism and liberalism must be opposite ends of a continuum, building on ideas from James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock about the nature of consent and contractarianism.
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