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The political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
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populism
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Word definitions for populism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Populism \Pop"u*lism\, n. (U. S. Politics) The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context philosophy English) A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1893; see populist + -ism . Originally in reference to the political theories of the U.S. Populist Party (also People's Party).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Populism is a political ideology which holds that the virtuous citizens are being mistreated by a small circle of elites, who can be overthrown if the people recognize the danger and work together. The elites are depicted as trampling in illegitimate fashion ...
Usage examples of populism.
Once allied with the Democratic party in supporting William Jennings Bryan for President in 1896, Populism would drown in a sea of Democratic politics.
The pressure for electoral victory led Populism to make deals with the major parties in city after city.
Even the hint of Populism in the Democratic party, it seemed, could not be tolerated, and the big guns of the Establishment pulled out all their ammunition, to make sure.
Russian man, uncontaminated by Western European cultural influences, on which he was to base the Russophile nationalism and populism of his later writings.
On the whole his political philosophy may be defined as a democratic Slavophilism or a mystical populism.