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December 6, 2023

🔮 Turkey’s refugees under the crossfire of two populisms

Bilge Yabancı
Does mainstream opposition always pursue a democratic and depolarising strategy to challenge incumbents' authoritarian populism? Bilge Yabancı argues that in Turkey, both the incumbent and opposition parties have exploited the refugee crisis for political gains at the expense of social cohesion and democratic values
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November 30, 2023

🔮 Populist voters are unhappy – and this has consequences for populism research

Annika Lindholm
Do people support populism and nativism because they are simply unhappy with their lives? Annika Lindholm and Lauri Rapeli call for more overarching psychological approaches to understanding the appeal of right-wing populism. They suggest bringing subjective well-being into populism research
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November 29, 2023

🔮 When populist governments (un)make European Union policies

Ariadna Ripoll Servent
The presence of populist governments in European Union policy-making has been largely ignored. Ariadna Ripoll Servent and Natascha Zaun argue that we should pay attention to populists’ behaviour in the Council of the EU. Populist governments do not play by the normal rules of the game; rather, they use ‘unpolitics’. This destructive approach to policy-making was instrumental in blocking a reform of EU migration politics
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November 27, 2023

🔮 Populism and democratic backsliding: learning from Hungary and Tunisia

Barbara Pisciotta
Barbara Pisciotta and Daniela Verena Huber explore how populism fuels societal divisions and provides fertile ground for democratic backsliding. This allows populist leaders to increase their own power at the expense of the opposition
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November 23, 2023

🔮 The technopopulist loop and conflicts of sovereignty in the EU

Emilija Tudzarovska
The EU economic crisis revealed a clash between the EU and national authorities. This clash is, however, only one part of the story. Events in Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Slovenia, writes Emilija Tudzarovska, also revealed a crisis of party politics. This crisis has triggered appeals to populism and technocracy – technopopulism – which weakens yet further the institutionalisation of politics
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November 15, 2023

🔮 Climate protection as a challenge for the populist radical right

Jakob Schwörer
The world is gripped by the urgent reality of global warming and climate protest. Amid the crisis, populist radical-right parties are being forced to integrate the issue within their own ideological, programmatic and strategical framework. This pursuit gives rise to variations in approaches within the party family, write Jakob Schwörer and Belén Fernández-García
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November 10, 2023

🔮 Nostalgia and populism

Ezgi Elçi
From Trump's 'Make America Great Again' to Turkey's Ottoman yearning, Ezgi Elçi explores the potent interplay of nostalgia and populism in shaping global politics. He delves into the captivating nexus of past and present, where leaders promise to resurrect authenticity in an era of uncertainty
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November 8, 2023

🔮 When populists meet financial globalisation

Pedro Perfeito Da Silva
The recurrent crises that emerged from financial globalisation have fuelled the success of populist parties across the world. Pedro Perfeito da Silva explains how initiatives to curb capital mobility and foreign banking ownership align with the ideological features of different varieties of populism
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November 2, 2023

🔮 Populist radical-right parties are threatening international cooperation

Motoshi Suzuki
Populist radical-right (PRR) parties use rhetorical and coalitional strategies to proclaim and advance issue ownership over immigration. In government coalitions, they act strategically to upgrade their ownership and weaken constitutional arrangements. If successful, argues Motoshi Suzuki, these parties threaten liberal democracy and international cooperation
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October 27, 2023

🔮 Back to the future of populism?

David Arter
Looking back should be the future direction of populism research, insists David Arter, who holds that political scientists would benefit from using a longer lens when viewing the genealogy of the populist party family
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