Populism
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| - | {{Template}}'''Populism''' is a political doctrine or philosophy that purports to defend the interests of the common people against an entrenched, self-serving or corrupt elite. In their 2007 volume ''Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy'' (Palgrave Macmillan), Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell define populism as "an ideology which pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ‘others’ who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity and voice". | + | {{Template}}'''Populism''' is a [[political]] [[doctrine]] or [[philosophy]] that proposes that the [[right]]s and [[power]]s of ordinary people are [[exploited]] by a [[privileged]] [[elite]], and supports their [[struggle]] to overcome this |
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