Political Populism in the Twenty-First Century

Maria Hsia Chang is a (Full) Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of five books and monographs, including Return of the Dragon: China’s Wounded Nationalism (2001) and Falun Gong: The End of Days (2004), which has been translated into Korean and French.

A. James Gregor (1929-2019) was a Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. A former Adjunct Professor at the Command and Staff College of the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, he was a prolific author of some 33 books, 13 monographs and over 100 journal articles. His writings spanned a range of subjects that include Italian Fascism, Marxism, U.S. foreign policy, China, political religions, and epistemology. An internationally recognized authority on Italian Fascism, Gregor was made Knight in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2004. His other academic honors included the Political History Prize, Italia tra le guerre (1983) and a Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1980-81).