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
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
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