Author

Sheri Berman

SHERI BERMAN is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. A leading scholar on European social democracy and fascist movements, she is the author of The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Ideological Dynamics of the Twentieth Century and Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day.

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Tyrants of Industry

Can the Right Tame Capitalism?

Sheri Berman

Review Essay May/June 2024

How Democracy Can Win

Europe, America, and the Taming of the Far-Right

Sheri Berman

November 11, 2022

Good at Being Bad

How Dictatorships Endure

Sheri Berman

Review Essay Nov/Dec 2022

Populism Is Not Fascism

But It Could Be a Harbinger

Sheri Berman

Nov/Dec 2016

The Continuing Promise of the Arab Spring

Why Nostalgia for the Ancien Regime Is Misguided

Sheri Berman

July 17, 2013

The Promise of the Arab Spring

In Political Development, No Gain Without Pain

Sheri Berman

Jan/Feb 2013

Après Louis, Hamid

Can Afghan State Builders Learn From Louis XIV?

Arjun Chowdhury, Ronald R. Krebs, James A. Nathan, and Sheri Berman

Response July/Aug 2010

From the Sun King to Karzai

Lessons for State Building in Afghanistan

Sheri Berman

Mar/Apr 2010

What to Read on Modernization Theory

Sheri Berman

List March 12, 2009

The Nation-State in Question

Reviewed by Sheri Berman

Review Mar/Apr 2004

We Didn’t Start the Fire

Capitalism and Its Critics, Then and Now

Sheri Berman

Review Essay July/Aug 2003

Bank on Democracy

Why Central Banks Need Public Oversight

Sheri Berman and Kathleen R. McNamara

Mar/Apr 1999