Political campaigning orientated towards true democracy (voting for specific benefits, liberties, law and order programs, etc.)  rather than representative democracy where one votes for a team of alleged responsible candidates who will, at a measured pace and after due deliberation, institute a program under some general theme (even if specific leg [..]

1893; see populist + -ism. Originally in reference to the political theories of the U.S. Populist Party (also People's Party).

A style of organizing that involves an effort to mobilize “the people” into a social or political movement around some form of anti-elitism. Populist movements can be on the right, the left, or in the center. They can be egalitarian or authoritarian, inclusive or exclusionary, forward-looking or fixated on a romanticized image of the past. They can [..]

Any mass political movement that mobilizes the people, usually the lower class, against an existing government or institution. Populism often features calls for defending the underdog. Although most p [..]

Collective noun for the ideologies which demand the redistribution of political power and economic leadership to the 'common people'.

(n) the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

A political or social ideology emphasizing advancement of the rights and interests of common people. From the Latin word populus, the people.

The ideologies of any of a number of political movements that demand the redistribution of political power, economic dominance and/or cultural leadership away from what are seen as corrupt, greedy, ov [..]