The Renewal of Representation: A Proposed Global Agenda. Populism—broadly understood as a claim to represent the unified will of a ‘pure’ people who are contrasted with a ‘corrupt’ elite—is increasingly being presented as both a global phenomenon and an existential threat to representative democracy. More recently, however, some have argued that populism also represents a potential opportunity for the renewal of representative institutions. vÃa Idea https://www.idea.int/news-media/multimedia-reports/renewal-representation-proposed-global-agenda