There has been much attention paid to the widespread resurgence of populism. Restorationism in Western democracies is a subset of this.
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The only exceptional leaders we need today are the ones who help us to govern and take care of ourselves.
While democracy is struggling globally and especially in Asia, Mongolians continue to vote and engage.
According to famed anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, the central question of our times is whether we’re witnessing the worldwide rejection of liberal democracy and its replacement by some sort of populist…
What sort of beliefs made a mass movement succeed?
Looking like a centrist, but governing as a conservative, Angela Merkel has cleared the decks before the coming German election.
Populist parties like France’s Front National typically stress traditional family values. So is it possible for them to appeal to traditional leftist voters like single women and the queer community?
UK voters delivered a devastating blow to the prime minister, who combined a populist message with her party’s traditional economic policies. She may now face a power struggle.
The leaders of Turkey and India have plenty in common.
Populist politics would appear to have left deliberative democracy by the wayside, but innovations that engage citizens in reasoned decision-making have much to offer.
Even if populist movements have been turned back in a few European elections, populism is not going to disappear. The EU needs a strategy to contain it.
Like president George W. Bush before him, Donald Trump made the announcement from the White House Rose Garden, showing that Republican governments have failed to learn past lessons.
Rationality doesn’t bring people together to make change happen – but powerful stories do.
The Conversation Global asked scholars from around the world what they thought of Emmanuel Macron’s victory, and what means for their country.
Macron’s win showed France is internationalist, outward looking, pro-EU and free market-oriented; Le Pen’s rise revealed that it’s also nationalist, protectionist, anti-EU and suspicious of outsiders.
Never before in French presidential elections have commentators and pundits expressed alarming concern about the size of the blank voting.
France’s two presidential candidates diverge markedly on many issues, but nothing is as divisive as France’s relationship with the EU.
What does it mean to be French? The two standing presidential candidates hope voters will agree with their version of the answer.
It all comes down to how many people abstain.
Both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have gained from the very deep disaffection of the French electorate with its traditional political representatives.
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