On March 17, 2022, Mr. Evan Balgord, Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, presented Far-Right Populism in Canada: From M103 to Ottawa Occupation at Digital Roundtable event, hosted by Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS)-Vancouver. The key points discussion included connections between different far-right movements Canada how grievances beliefs on conspirac...

In the established landscape of research in social sciences, populism is seen as a type politics that chiefly revolves around distinction between “people” and “elite”.1 Within this, different forms can be distinguished—ranging from right-wing authoritarian to liberal-centrist religious varieties. camp political left, often cast essentially democratic endeavor. Drawing on conception inclusive pe...

We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice model yields a preference for incompetent leaders. These deliver worse material outcomes in general, but they reduce the feelings...

Should Latin American governments concentrate their efforts in improving efficiency, transparency and accountability or should they also aim to increase the participation of citizens in decision-making? Is there a risk of reinforcing inequality through the promotion of ICT's for democracy in countries with a considerable digital divide? Is there a risk of reinforcing populism, clientelism and c...

This article argues that populism, both in its left-wing and right-wing versions, is a social pathology the sense contemporary critical theorists give to it. As such, it suffers from disconnect between first order political practices reflexive grasp of meaning those practices. due populists’ ideal freedom, which they understand as authentic self-expression ‘the People’, rejecting need for media...