The youth wing of Vlaams Belang on a retreat. Wikimedia. Public domain. Many researchers and commentators of populist politics tend to confuse populism with nationalism. This confusion makes the study ...
The results of the June 23, 2016, Brexit vote were a shock to many in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. By a 52%-48% margin, ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Populism is a political ideology that positions “the people” as a morally just, good ...
One of the great mysteries about the rise of populism, in both the United States and Europe, is why it has benefited the political right so much more than the left. For years, American progressives ...
Zohran Mamdani is the latest sign establishment Democrats don’t know how to handle a populist challenge. They haven’t learned anything from the defeats right-wing populism inflicted on them with ...
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 ...
Beyond the high drama surrounding the Makerfield by-election and the contest to be the UK prime minister lies a more ...
What Talarico did in his primary race was test an idea that we never really got to see come to fruition during Bernie Sanders ...
Politicians who use populist language that emphasizes the will of “the people” and criticizes corrupt elites tend to be perceived as more aligned with certain policy positions—even when no explicit ...