Social Policy, March 22nd, 1998
Populism is considered a form of resistance to democracy which is hoped will eventually give sovereignty to ordinary citizens. The original populists failed to restrain corporate ascendancy, but they succeeded in providing Americans with cooperative economic alternatives, alternatives to the corporate order and building confidence in ordinary people that they can govern themselves. With the emergence of a more formidable corporate sovereignty, populists of today's society need to adopt a positive populism which recognizes that business can be harnessed to accommodate social needs.
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