Hi Rachel! Thank you for the upbeat response to my article. I was searching online to see if I can find Jason Israel's interview on Australian ABC, but I was not successful.

It seems that the rise of populism has been synchronized across the world, apparent with the global economic crisis. So it seems that economics is the driving force. You have the left-wing populist

movements of Chavez-Maduro in Venezuela, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and in Bolivia that focuses on inequality and redistribution. You have a surge of authoritarian far-right populism in Brazil and in the

Philippines. And the list goes on. So as to the micro-social economic, it varies from country to country, but the unifying discontent has to do with economics.