Articles by Barbara Pisciotta

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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Barbara Pisciotta
Full Professor of Political Science, Roma Tre University

Barbara teaches international politics, democratisation processes and democracy and digitisation.

She is author of three books and several articles focusing on the internal and international dimension of democratisation in East and Central Europe, and on Russian revisionism.

Regional and Global Revisionism: Russia and China in a Comparative Perspective
The International Spectator, 53(3), 2023, 96–112); with D. Huber

From Democracy to Hybrid Regime: Democratic Backsliding and Populism in Hungary and Tunisia
Contemporary Politics, 29(3), 2022; pp. 357–378

Russian Revisionism in the Putin Era: An Overview of Post-Communist Military Interventions in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria
Italian Political Science Review, 50(1), 2020

The Center-Periphery Cleavage Revisited: East and Central Europe from Postcommunism to Euroscepticism
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 22(2), 2016

US Foreign Policy in a Challenging World

The US-Russia Conflict in the Ukrainian Crisis: Unipolarism Versus Revisionism?
US Foreign Policy in a Challenging World: Building Order on Shifting Foundations
edited by M. Clementi, M. Dian and B. Pisciotta, Springer 2018

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