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Money worries and job dissatisfaction drove Europe’s populist boom, research suggests

31 Mar 2026

Everyday financial anxieties and frustration with low-quality work – rather than immigration alone – helped populist politics explode across Europe...

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President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at Yokota Air Base | November 5, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

'Populism' revealed as 2017 Word of the Year by Cambridge University Press

30 Nov 2017

The word 'populism' has been announced as the Cambridge Dictionary 2017 Word of the Year.

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Populism

First Brexit and now Trump: what is populism and how might we view it?

24 Jan 2017

In an article that draws on her research into populism in Western Europe, Léonie de Jonge (PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and...

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