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It's easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose.

Over the years, Mr Sata has garnered a reputation for populist rhetoric and he has previously said he would kick out bogus investors.

All that populist anti-Wall Street rhetoric in Washington scares the heck out of investors.

A month ago, the chatter in financial circles was that Britain was the one rich country that might take a populist lurch.

The question of whether modern democracies can successfully resist populist tyranny is raised and then abandoned within two paragraphs.

He's not a populist at all. He's sort of a typical throwback to the Japanese prime minister of yore, the faceless grey suits.

For years now the populist prophets of new media have been proclaiming the death of books, and the marketplace seems to back them up.

France's mainstream parties should be careful. At a time of crisis, populist sloganeering can prove dangerously effective.

The account's third tweet says "Kim Jong-un's populist policy is nothing but a joke. "

Washington is still trying to steer a careful line between populist politicians who can sense public anger and the powerful financial lobby.

The last thing any American politician wants to do right now is to help non-US banks; at least not in the current populist climate.

The Kochs, he said, are "trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies. "

Financial regulation does not seem to be extending much beyond populist pseudo-measures on tax havens.

Some of his oldest detractors reckoned he might astonish everyone by switching from populist hawk to pragmatic dove.

In the meantime, he warns, "There could be a different new form of politics, much more populist, dangerous, fascistic, like the BNP. "

But he still arouses worries among businessmen and democrats that he would try to nudge Peru in a more authoritarian, populist direction.

Obama's effect on this populist tradition is like that of a red flag on a bull.

The first great populist: he found America a republic and left it a democracy.

Europe is lucky that in most of the countries in the periphery, there were responsible governments that did not take populist stands.

But, often to its credit, the British right is not as populist as it thinks.

Its election campaign was as nonsensical and populist as the slippery ex-communists it affects to despise.

"If you're in a populist mood, you've got to find the villain, " Mr McGraw told the Financial Times in a interview in Beijing.

Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country.

Being an entrepreneur automatically made me a very long shot in Indian politics, and an easy target for populist rhetoric.

Others have called him a reckless populist bound to steer South Africa to the left and ultimately trigger investor flight.

"Hatoyama is scoring populist points by talking about distancing Japan from [the US] alliance, " she said.

The reason lies in the populist nature of these talent shows.

It is a comforting idea, especially at a time of populist ire and envy over the wealthy.

Until two months ago, she was a low-key businesswoman, but her team put together a slick and energetic campaign backed by populist policies.

Get ready for a populist movement in years ahead -- one that could take many forms -- and a very bumpy ride.

The focus of Peters's later work was the management of continuous change in a chaotic world. His books became ever more populist.

A brilliant populist, he has showered enough attention and largesse on poor, pious Iranians to win a place in their hearts.

But Ms. Yingluck faces considerable challenges ranging from selection of her Cabinet to implementing the party's populist election promises.

And she doubtless wants to see the continuation of the leftist, populist policies she and her husband have implemented.

In the U. S. , Congress has reacted to a tide of populist anger by calling for greater scrutiny of the Fed's actions.

Populist initiatives like this go down well but ultimately do little to address young Iranians' more pressing concerns.

Why are these troublesome, populist broadcasters allowed to operate at all?

The British tabloid Mirror was also enthusiastic about Obama's populist high street style, dubbing her the "First Lady of fashion. "

Had he done less, the populist backlash might have been worse.

This makes the bank an easy target for populist politicians and tabloid newspapers.

Yet he occasionally refuses to drop some of the populist gestures that used to frighten liberals and whites.

First, there seems little logical explanation for such a sudden about-turn except for populist politics.

And while the plan stands little chance of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public can support.

It would be disastrous if they sought to do so by pandering to the more populist elements of their constituency.

The question now, Mr. Iio and others say, is whether Mr. Kan fully grasps this shift to a more populist style of politics.

But in the period before the vote, the populist, leftist president would be able to rule by decree.

His support comes mainly from the poor, who are drawn by his populist agenda.

In the US, the populist Tea Party movement has increased the pressure to crack down on illegal immigration from Mexico.

We might not know exactly what they signify, but they can provide any economic forecast with a populist cover.

Every single European country, including all of these squeaky clean Scandinavian ones, now have rightwing populist parties.

A space may open up for a populist party with an armed wing.

But a populist response to the economic crisis is pulling in the opposite direction, as several recent incidents in Hungary illustrate.

But unlike in other countries, from the Netherlands to Hungary, any kind of populist politics continues to be verboten in Germany.

The rich are certainly not the only targets in the current populist backlash.

Neither are most of her colleagues in Europe's populist and rightwing parties.

The president took his populist appeal to the recession-battered central state of Ohio Friday.

He must get tough, not because populist rage polls well, but because his leadership depends on challenging those who challenge him.

It represents a surrender to populist introspection and a betrayal of the logic of Europe's open borders.

"It also fuels populist, protectionist and anti-globalisation sentiments. . . Ignoring increasing inequality is not an option, " he added.

Banks' pivotal role in the global economic recovery conflicts with the populist desire to punish them.

Populist politics, poor fiscal management, a reliance on foreign-currency borrowing and fixed exchange rates were a magnet for trouble.

populist struck a triumphant tone, predicting the collapse of the American project to establish a democratic government in Iraq.

But that is not the only EU on offer: a corporatist, cosy, populist union sounds very plausible to Europe's ageing, anxious voters.

Thaksin, the former populist prime minister now wanted on terrorism charges for allegedly orchestrating much of the violence in Bangkok.

Even if its populist measures boost short-term growth, this could come at the cost of creating an unsustainable fiscal deficit.

When helping deal with a populist anti-corruption campaign this summer he seemed diffident.

Under the rule of the authoritarian populist, Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia had become a playground for crooks and spooks.

Some could be tempted by a new populist movement calling itself "Nakh-Nakh" (read: "fuck off" ), which urges voters to spoil their ballots.

He still has to convince rural voters that his administration is not about to reverse its predecessors' populist policies.

While Labor promised to bring in a more humanitarian policy, in many ways Ms Gillard has only prolonged her predecessors' populist approach.

Raising the minimum wage (which Republicans foolishly failed to do before the election) is a classic populist position.

It sounded like a reasonable request, given the populist attacks on the wealthy in general and the Goldman wealthy in particular.

The Kremlin leader asks why should Medvedev participate in debates and discuss problems that will be clearly formulated in a populist key.

Instead of allowing himself to be engulfed by populist outrage, Obama joined the chorus.

Instead, the Congress is indulging in a populist frenzy; and the administration is hoping for the best.

The electorate, we hear, wants Barack Obama to be more of an economic populist but less of an ambitious reformer.

But for all his efforts to woo the anti-war wing, he is free of the isolationist flavour of most populist politicians.

Separately, Paul Collier, an economist with a populist turn of phrase, calls such banks "pimps" .

Mr Obama may simply have to tough out what promises to be another bout of populist anger.

Along with it are the chorus of voices rising for and against populist ideas.

CHEVRON is a "multinational monster" , says Ecuador's populist president, Rafael Correa. Various celebrities agree (see picture).

They hope a new vote will bring in a populist government they say would better cater to the needs of Thailand's large, rural population.

It is the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who commands the armed forces and national security apparatus, not the populist president.

For one, the existing criminal-justice system, led by a government in distress, is not exactly un-populist.

But no sooner was the ink dry on these articles than the populist storm seemed to blow itself out.

Even so, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin, former Alaskan governor, touchstones for the populist Right, seemed like phenomena from a past era.

They were not soft-rock aficionados, but Facebook fans of populist right-wing parties that are sweeping the continent.

The populist ANC leader was delivering a speech at a forum hosted by the chief Rabbi of South Africa, Warren Goldstein.

and a populist backlash against political and financial elites.

In other words, a compromise between elitist and populist visions of what Wikipedia should be.

The cleric is clearly following the Hezbollah model, creating a populist political movement backed by a battle-hardened militia.

The protesters have portrayed Mr. Samak as a proxy for Mr. Thaksin and his populist politics.

By 2034, this resentment leads to the creation of a violent populist revolution, which sweeps the meritocracy away.

Populist politicians forgot that judges tend to have fixed ideas about the relative seriousness of offences.

It's a shame that it's looked down on for being too populist.

The traditional Chinese culture presents many precious ideas and qualities, which are essentially populist and democratic.

Will voters become so angry that they demand more populist public bail-outs of the housing sector (or financial reform)?

Support for the protests comes mostly from the rural and urban poor and working class, who support Mr. Thaksin's populist economic polices.

But generally race relations are harmonious, partly perhaps because for many years the main parties refused to make populist appeals.

But however much sympathy the populist Mr Zuma may have for trade unionists, he does not want to be beholden to COSATU.

Apparently, the simpletons in these populist movements must not be trusted in our ever-more complex globalised world.

The Netherlands' recently elected minority government depends for survival on support from a Muslim-baiting populist.

Asia is becoming awash with competitive liberalisation, while populist protectionist sentiment prevails in the west.

The racy tabloid, which specialised in sex scandals and populist campaigns, launched the-then Australian press baron on to the world stage.

With all the political theater and populist grandstanding , though, the bigger issue has been obscured.

Since Mr Thaksin and his populist policies retain wide support, the PPP may enter the election campaign as front-runner.

Meanwhile, grassroots support for Mr. Thaksin and his populist policies still runs deep in rural Thailand. Mr.

But it is also creating new divisions within the Evangelical movement between a cosmopolitan establishment and the populist masses.

Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, was accused of bowing to populist pressure in an election year.

The PAD, which represents the urban elite, has a genuine distaste for the former prime minister's populist, authoritarian ways.

One academic commentator, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, has called this campaign the "race to the populist bottom" .

CHAVEZ: First of all, Bush has called me worse: tyrant, populist dictator, drug trafficker, to name a few.

Fed watchers remind us that populist anger against America's central bank rises and falls with the business cycle.

It could fuel protectionist and populist sentiment, particularly since Americans are already unusually fed up.

An advertisement cast the event as a populist uprising against vested corporate power.

Several centrist leaders did well in a repudiation of the Kirchners' populist economic policies.

Running West Bengal, a state of 90m, will be harder than populist campaigning.

Mr Lamy said governments had to "keep pushing back" against populist protectionist pressures.

The demands for jail sentences are buttressed by the populist notion that Wall Street is basically a Ponzi scheme.

In China's response last week, the most visible figure was Premier Wen, who has become a populist hero as a result of his actions.

Following Argentina's return to democracy in 1983, power alternated between the populist Peronists and the middle-class Radicals.

In 2005 she almost lost to a footballer and political novice, George Weah, who ran as a populist.

Many in western Europe are predicting outbreaks of populist nationalism, demagoguery and social unrest.

We must not get diverted by the financial sector's opposition or by populist rage. We must focus, instead, on the core issue.

Mr Murdoch is rightly criticised for fostering an attack-dog populist culture in British journalism (and elsewhere).

Its populist, pro-poor message (reschedule Indonesia's debts and divert the proceeds into public services) has struck a chord.

China has far better grasps on the temperature of their populist than most western diplomats and journalists.

Jackson came back four years later, breathing populist fire, on the ticket of his new Democratic party.

Only thus can he summon up a populist wave for himself and ride it to re-election.

But many Ecuadorians worry that the left-wing populist president is creating a Venezuelan-style autocracy.

In 2006 Ollanta Humala, a populist former army officer with no previous political experience, came within five percentage points of winning.

It does not help that the Democrat Party has proposed a lot of similarly populist economic policies to PT's.

The temptation to scapegoat the euro may prove hard to resist for some populist European politicians.

Are populist politicians turning on foreign capital? FOREIGN investment helped catapult central Europe to prosperity over the past 20 years.

The problems with immigration, budget cuts, and the emergence of right-wing populist parties are reflected in the city.

Ministers may fear that local control of the police would lead to populist law enforcement.

I'll tell you what that would mean: a truly populist Oscars.

The first, at least is populist, and the second is elitist.

They are therefore responsible for the wave of populist criticism of US-style capitalism sweeping Germany.

The monarchies in Malaysia and Cambodia have painfully lost influence to populist commoners.

It is certainly possible that either a Humala or a Fujimori presidency would push Peru down the path of populist authoritarianism.

Now, he is taking a more populist approach - focusing on the day-to-day issues that create money woes for many families.

Discussions and briefing often lead to a shift away from populist viewpoints.

"Hatoyama was dreamy and populist and completely inefficient, and Kan went nowhere, " Mr Green said.

And the combination of pork-stuffed legislation and scandal-riven bail-outs threatens to create a populist backlash.

the brand lost both its populist edge and its competitive advantage.

Populist adventurism also seems unattractive.

That could be dismissed as populist political noise ahead of elections due next year.

It is hard not to sympathise with Mr Tanenhaus's distaste for the likes of Bill O'Reilly, a commentator from the populist right.

The English-language edition of Global Times, a populist newspaper, published an unsigned editorial lambasting ConocoPhillips.

Many of Tuesday's Democratic victors stressed familiar populist themes: corporate misbehaviour and tough times faced by working people.

Taiwan populist right of the public doing? Choi Min looting !

After his party lost ground in the state legislature in the 2004 election, he pivoted in a populist direction.

He is a populist, a lover of tabloids and a brilliant businessman.

And although the movement itself may splinter and even disappear, the populist energy that powers it will not go away any time soon.

The mood on the right may be populist, but it's a kind of populism that's remarkably sympathetic to big corporations.

Perhaps it will be the parliamentary defeat of an austerity budget or the election of an extreme populist party.

He is an illiberal populist, sneering at gays and hinting at bringing back the death penalty.

One sign can be seen in the rise of the populist Tea Party movement.

So the present dispute over pay and bonuses is more than a focus for populist anger about the cost of taxpayer bail-outs.

Funds from the IMF standby agreement are frozen following the approval of populist measures.

It will be an early test of whether she will pursue sensible policies rather than populist ones.

The move is not quite that extreme; but it is driven by similar populist impulses.

For his part, McCain took a more populist approach than he has in the past in describing the roots of the current crisis.

Put another way, the two parties agree most on issues where they are at their most coolly rational, and least populist.

Mr. Wen, a. k. a. 'Grandpa Wen, ' has cultivated a populist aura, and has boasted in the past about his love of exercise.

If Italy were forced to default, it might well elect a populist government set on exiting from the euro.

Is a populist response to public resentment heralding a new era of economic nationalism?

And the White House has ruled out more populist attacks on Wall Street pay, such as a windfall tax.

He blames Congress's opponent, the state's populist chief minister, Mayawati.

He is expected to back a reformist former prime minister, Mir Hosein Mousavi, against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the populist incumbent.

Once again Shia slum-dwellers in Baghdad and the south voted in numbers for Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric.

In the meantime, members of Congress and interest groups are also joining the populist wave.

On many of these populist measures, France is isolated.

He came to Washington in 1989 to work on the House Banking Committee under its populist chairman, Henry Gonzales, for eight years.

Populist critics deride this train of logic as "trickle-down economics. "

It will be dangerous for Republicans to oppose the populist proposal, but Mr Obama's outrage is disingenuous.

It returnedto power in 2002 atop the lip of current PrimeMinister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a gesture of his populist appeal.

The most prized experiences have an educational or altruistic bent, which help deflect populist criticism.

A booming economy allows Mr Abhisit to indulge voters with populist handouts.

They will be amplified by the populist and charismatic former president, Jerry Rawlings.

The headlines these days are filled with populist attacks on the wealthy.

Then we elected a populist administration, and it was time for the pendulum to swing back.

'He's a populist politician but he's not getting any interaction with Chinese people.

Bogotanos blame this backward slide on their mayor, Samuel Moreno, a populist from the left-wing Democratic Pole party.

The most reliable populist cry today remains "resistance" .

The global credit crisis has made the financial sector vulnerable to populist attacks.

This is a "key point" for the new populist-nationalists, said Matthew Goodwin from Nottingham University, an expert on the far right.

He has also initiated many populist programs to alleviate social and economic inequality.

As for monetary union, America twice created central banks in its early years and then dismantled them because of populist dislike.

Is the tea party a real populist movement or a front for big business?

Despite accusations of headline grabbing, the government has rejected empty, populist proposals for reform.

Historically, the populist aim was prosperity and equality for all.

In Latin America, a number of politicians have been elected in recent years based on populist and, in some cases, socialist platforms.

And why is a populist republic so enamoured of political dynasties?

Although differences remain about how to regulate Wall Street, the populist rhetoric that infected the debate has cooled.

Mr Ahmadinejad has also visited Bolivia, where he hugged its populist leader, Evo Morales.

Then again, he also likes to rail against high prices with populist fervour.

The Freedom Party's economic policies are populist and left-leaning.

There are ambitious new targets for cutting crime and building roads, among other populist policies.

So, why don't reminders of the CIA's efforts with the 'Third Force' spark similar populist backlash?

But public opinion can favour populist giveaways, too.

But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.

Mr Osborne has made populist pledges to cut stamp duty for first-time home-buyers and to exempt more people from inheritance tax.

Instead of being too real, then, Indian reality TV reinforces populist escapism.

The real danger now is not that he will give up on reform, but that recession will reinforce his worst populist tendencies.

However, in an interview, Mr Wu worried that some recent developments in China suggested a populist lurch.

If the populist president really wants to firm up his hold on power, he will need to campaign less and govern more effectively.

On one side of President Barack Obama runs a growing populist opposition to bailing out any more big companies.

The antitrust laws have been stretched in order to appease the sentiment of populist Chinese websites.

Poland's populist coalition is tottering.

Our democratic and populist urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism.

Populist SDKU tactics, such as denouncing the rescue plans for Greece and the euro, have failed to win it support.

Yes, a populist nerve has been ticked but that does not mean it will compromise the government's decision making.

Was it Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islamic populist?

The second thing we know is that the paper is likely to become shriller and more populist, across the board.

Slovakia's left-leaning populist government has been needling Hungary since it took power in 2006.

But in 2000 Al Gore injected a strongly populist tone into his campaign.

It was, in fact, the most important American political document between the populist platform of 1892 and the Democratic platform of 1936.

Lord Patten says the biggest risk is that the new president takes a "Lou Dobbs view of the world" , referring to the populist CNN anchor.

The temptation, when coming up with projects such as these, is to plump with much bravado for either an elitist or a populist approach.

But contact with the people is intrinsic to Mr Berlusconi's populist style.

The main worry about Mr Webb, however, is that he is a genuine fire-breathing economic populist.

As a result it became nearly impossible to reverse Greece's system of populist support and entitlements.

The ruling was seen as protectionist and populist by many people outside China.

It is already clear that his government will be more technocratic and more centrist than Mr Uribe's populist conservatism.

He is a charismatic and populist orator.

There is a deep populist anger brewing in America, and Mr Obama risks having cooled it barely at all.

If the populist economic policies are the people shooting themselves in the foot, that is their own choice.

The people of art and design, populist voice in the rising.

Ms Tymoshenko is the most professional politician in Ukraine , but also the most populist.

An EU that is more protectionist will grow more slowly, to the benefit of populist parties.

But there is little more information about the 58-year-old populist.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America. 1978.

The political trajectory in the US, for example, seems pretty volatile, given the rise of populist rhetoric.

I am no populist.

Although Hong Kong's administration does not have to face democracy for another decade, Mr Tsang has hit on the perfect populist budget.

Wang's figures and logos are almost deliberately naive, as if drawn from a populist revolutionary impulse;

The hypothesis may be taken as an equivalent to the Populist claim that Russia may not undergo the stage of capitalist development;

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