Page 2 - Populism

Power populism

States should resist the temptation to hand out free electricity

How Kejriwal's AAP and Modi's BJP are strikingly similar, and yet different

The two offer the same package - personality cult, populist schemes, inflated claims, etc - but the hard edge to BJP's communalism is missing in AAP, a difference we should celebrate, writes T N Ninan

Letter to BS: Why welfare policies in developed nations are not populist

Examples of populist measures are sometimes controversial such as exemptions from indirect tax given to ladies' hand bags and bindis and to imports of professional equipment by journalists

Populism in less developed countries is somewhat different

Our understanding and response to the populist challenges need to be suitably differentiated, a fact which seems to be overlooked in the large and growing flurry of writings on populism

Daniel Gros: Is globalisation really fuelling populism?

A close look at statistics belies the argument that the losers of globalisation are revolting against the elites