modern populism

The term populism has been around since Ancient Rome,and has its roots in the Latin word “populus” meaning “the people.
But since then populism has been used to describe dozens of political movements,often with counterintuitive and sometimes
contradictory goals.Populist movements have rebelled
against monarchies, monopolies,and a wide variety of powerful institutions.It’s not possible to cover the full history of this term here.Instead, we’re focusing on one specific type of populism—
the kind that describes Papandreou’s administration
and numerous other governments over the last 70 years: modern populism.But to understand how political theorists define this phenomenonwe first need to explore what it’s responding to.