Kurt Gerhard Weyland
Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
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Weyland has conducted research in Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Costa Rica; Peru; and Venezuela. His particular interests have been external influences on domestic developments. His second area of research concerns populism; a political strategy in which personalistic leaders base their quest for power on widespread but heterogeneous and weakly organized mass support.
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Opinion: "Why American Democracy Will Survive," Kurt Gerhard Weyland (with ), The Washington Post, November 26, 2024.
Interviewed in "Brazil's Workers' Party May Soon be Forced to Start Pondering Life after Lula," World Politics Review, January 31, 2018.
Opinion: "There are 4 Big Barriers to the Populist Model in America (and Your Democracy is Safe)," Kurt Gerhard Weyland, The Washington Post, August 11, 2017.