Emmanuel Macron

Evaluating Potential Authoritarian Threats: Is French President Emmanuel Macron a Populist Leader?

posted on February 13, 2020 by Leilani Chew

Boston University Tagged With: Emmanuel Macron, France, Western Europe

Many consider National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s loss of the 2017 election a victory for the preservation of French democracy, as she is widely considered an anti-democratic populist. By Levitsky …

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Macron: The Next Louis XVI? by Kennen Sparks

posted on April 16, 2019 by Kennen Sparks

Utah State University Tagged With: Emmanuel Macron, France, Louis XVI, Western Europe, Yellow Vest

The first protest against a fuel tax was on November 16th, 2018—at that time no one could have imagined that it would have ballooned into the largest series of protests in France since the infamous …

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