List of Populist parties

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This is a list of parties who ideologically, for one reason or the other can be named populist by ideology.

Contents 1 Difficulties with the identification 2 Populist parties in Europe 3 Populist parties in the Americas 4 Populist parties in Africa 5 Populist parties in Asia

[edit] Difficulties with the identification

Diferently from most ideologies, populism not only doesn't have a very defined ideological corpus and history (it is more correctly a type of discourse), but also has a negative conotaction most ideologies don't have. So few parties have the name Populist Party today, and not a lot more brag that their ideology may be defined as that. It is also a frequent, mainly in in Third World countries, to use populist as an insult on a politician who has weak democratic (and mainly demagogic) pratices, so finding populist parties is a hard work, because we have to distinguish the connoctations (normally negative) of populism and look for real trademarks of the populist ideology. But they normaly name themselves People's Party, or Popular Party, People's Democratic Party, etc.

[edit] Populist parties in Europe

• Russia's Choice (oligarchic yeltsinist pan-slavist russian nationalist populism)
• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (ultranationalistic conservative semi-fascist pseudo-democrat populism)
• Our Home is Russia (statist yeltsinist russian nationalist populism)
• United Russia (a putinist version of Our Home is Russia)
• Democratic Party of Russia (liberal populism, popular democrat)
• People's Democratic Party/Social Democratic Party (Portugal) (social conservative, social liberal humanistic version of christian democratic popular democrat populism)
• Democratic Social Centre/People's Party (Portugal) (conservative christian democratic classical liberalist populism)

[edit] Populist parties in the Americas

• Populist Party (American, historical) (american populism, democratic populism)
• People's Party (United States, 1970)
• Populist Party (American, neo-fascist)
• Populist Party of America
• Reform Party of the United States of America
• United Socialist Party of Venezuela (bolivarianistt pan-americanist socialist populism)
• Movement for Socialism (Bolivia) (the same ideology, but in an indigenist nationalist version.

[edit] Populist parties in Africa

• People's Front for Democracy and Justice (ochlocracist nationalist Hamasienist Greater Middle Eastern Third World populism).

[edit] Populist parties in Asia

• People's Power Party (Thailand) (centre-right populism)
• People's Power Party (India) (semi-socialist democratic populism)
• Janata Party (Indian socialist populism)