POPULISM

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("populism" is a kind of...):

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)

Derivation:

populist (someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite)