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Current events show that the old problem of populism is making a comeback, and that populism is indeed an autoimmune disease of our age of monitory democracy.
We’re not sure if the cure, the populist outsider, will work and make life better. but we are willing to experiment as the old certainties of representative politics wither.
Why are we increasingly seeing voters support candidates whose policies are, superficially at least, against their own interests?
Ambivalence among voters is reason to think about how democracy is working for us as a community. To keep democracy alive we need to be sceptical about the exercise of power and keep it in check.
The only exceptional leaders we need today are the ones who help us to govern and take care of ourselves.
For decades, India’s Hindu and Muslim populations have been at odds, and it comes down to more than just religion.
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.
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.
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.
We are witnessing the global rise of populism. Once seen as a fringe phenomenon from another era or only certain parts of the world, populism is a mainstay of politics today across the globe.
The future of democracy depends on developing a left-wing populism that can revive public interest by mobilising political passions in the fight for an alternative to neoliberal de-democratisation.
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Governance, University of Canberra
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Professor of Comparative Political Science and Democracy Research at the Humboldt University Berlin; Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney; Director of Research Unit Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
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Research Fellow, Democracy and Citizen Engagement, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
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Senior research associate, University of Canberra
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Honorary Associate Professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor at the School of Political Science, Diego Portales University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra
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Professional Associate and Research Fellow, Business, Government and Law - University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Professor and Director of the Department for European Policy and the study of Democracy, Danube University Krems
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Professor of Politics, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow, ARC Laureate Program in International History, University of Sydney
