This article presents an attempt to understand the relationship between digital populism and post-truth politics. At first, we will try fuzzy semantic category of populism. Next, examine growth right-wing in Europe its main characteristics. Finally, analyze how current model networked communication, particularly direct anatomy social networks, become a fertile field for dissemination populist r...

Adequate and modern health care is not available in Venezuela at this moment. A humanitarian crisis of post war dimensions is currently rampant and afflicting all Venezuelans alike. The delivery and availability of cancer care is severely limited and inadequate. No funding is available as populist measures, mismanagement, pillaging, corruption, lack of forethought and expertise have brought the...

Latin America’s “left turn” was the focus of a cluster of thoughtful articles in the October 2006 issue of this journal. Since then, the trend toward the left and toward populist governments has deepened. In South America, the rise of the left is unmistakable, with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela led by presidents with varying degrees and shapes ...

Populism and technocracy represent a challenge to pluralist party democracies. The first promotes the rule by ‘the people’, while second demands independent experts. literature on populism as challenges democracy is burgeoning. Less known about citizens’ attitudes towards ideas that underpin both technocracy. In this article these opinions are explored in survey conducted Spain using comprehens...

Populism has expanded over the past decade, especially far-right parties and their respective voter bases. Voting patterns are often unevenly distributed space, which makes it very relevant to explore, along with other factors, spatial dimension. This will increase our understanding of rise populist parties, accordingly, policy implications. First, an introduction populism is given, in context ...

Abstract Since 2016 a series of unexpected developments such as Brexit and the shock election Donald Trump have drawn attention to rise populism one most significant phenomena in today’s political world. This populist ‘explosion’ is widely regarded threat democracy human rights, particularly rights minorities. So how should movement best respond? Speaking special issue theme on meaning challeng...

This article assesses the assumption that populist parties form an efficacious exhaust valve for voters, the channelling discontent thesis, as it is termed here. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Dutch PVV voters and (deliberate) nonvoters, I assess this thesis in a comparison between them. This analysis shows that non-voters do not lack political fulfilment on two of the three dimensions of ...

The purpose of this paper is discuss how technological change affect the labor market and what populist actions that are expected follow. The causes and consequences of possible technological unemployment will be addressed and to what extent it could be expected that the rapid technological change leads to unemployment (or that the labor market adapts in a similar way to previous technological ...

The 2016 candidacy of Donald Trump has drawn considerable interest among social scientists. Long-standing interests in the role of authoritarianism, populism, race, and class as determinants of political preferences and behavior have resurfaced. In this paper, we rely upon a unique survey panel to explore changing support for Republican presidential candidates over the primary season, test comp...