The European populist right has been at the top of the political agenda in recent days. On July 7, everyone in France was ...

Democrats and Republicans traded visions for America this week, both in the State of the Union address and on the campaign trail. Both parties are embracing the core message that America's ...

Discourse theory offers a framework for understanding how populist movements construct political reality through language, symbols and practices. At its core is the idea that “the people” and “the ...

Populist discourse frames politics as a moral confrontation between a virtuous people and a corrupt elite, positioning itself as the authentic voice of popular sovereignty. As a thin-centred ideology, ...

Populists and abundance proponents have retreated into factional warfare. But both sides need to realize that they need each other. Ezra Klein and Sam Seder in the middle of an argument about ...

Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: ...

OTTAWA — Most Canadians with a view say they don’t like the populist wave washing over much of the world, a new poll has found, even though a healthy chunk of respondents also said they support some ...

For a long time, Japan’s political system was treated as a success story in comparison with other democratic states. During the 2010s, while Western democracies were engulfed by a populist surge ...

In 2017, in the wake of Brexit and Donald Trump’s first election win, populism was named the “word of the year” by Cambridge University Press. Almost a decade later, we might have thought the term’s ...

A study involving the UAB has analyzed the effect of foreign trade and immigration on the success of both right- and left-wing populist parties. The analysis reveals how the importation of products ...