Beyond the high drama surrounding the Makerfield by-election and the contest to be the UK prime minister lies a more ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK demonstrates how modern populists are constructed through strategic narratives of ...

Spikes in popular support for bad, but seemingly minor, anti-market policies can quickly spiral into more serious problems. As Democrats and Republicans jointly wrote their 21st Century ROAD to ...

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 ...

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 ...