Financial crises and soaring inequality fueled the populist backlashes that threaten neoliberalism’s core principles of free markets and free people. The world needs a new narrative to counteract it.
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This was a vote against the prime minister – not a show of support for his rivals.
There’s truth in the analysis that the rise of right-wing populism is a response to the failures of globalisation. But is it the only response?
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia’s Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
The better-to-do and the established of civil and political society have become complacent and deaf to ‘those at the bottom’. The working class has gone over to the right-wing populists.
The leaderlessness of South Africa’s #FeesMustFall student movement has ultimately fed into divisions within the grouping.
The PM came to power as the anti-establishment candidate. Now he could be the next victim of populist ire.
By dismissing the votes in June and November as simple ‘disatisfaction’, the political elites face a long walk in the wilderness.
The Front National leader is feeling confident after Brexit and Trump.
At first it seemed comical that such an unpolished campaign could win over American voters. No one’s laughing now.
Trump won because his supporters no longer believe incremental change can deliver for them.
Trump has won the White House by offering a vision of a bygone era, in favour of a more cosmopolitan, sophisticated future.
Insights from psychology, neuroscience, economics and political science on how the incoming president might move people from the extreme right or left of the political spectrum to a sociable centre.
While the citizens of the capital protest against their president, everyone else hails him as their saviour.
Donald Trump is the latest example of populism’s return to the global political landscape. Nine scholars from seven countries examine the link between populism and democracy.
In this special The Conversation project, scholars and commentators from around the world examine the rise of populism, and its implications, now and into the future.
Donald Trump may lose his bid for the White House. But far more competent, grassroots politicians will line up to take his mantle.
Populism is a hot topic around the globe right now, and much can be learned from studying its history.
The narrative Donald Trump has played during the campaign is that the elites who have abandoned him or disagree with him are all part of the establishment he seeks to destroy.
Farage’s successor says hers is the ‘opposition party in waiting’. But it’s going to need a plan beyond Brexit.
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