Italian populists’ focus on ‘the will of the people’ has frequently contradicted their ideological priorities towards migration, Fred Paxton and Andrea Pettrachin find. The perception of local attitudes to immigration and issue salience are the determining factors in how populists in local government make their decisions
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Glasgow
Fred holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence.
His research interests concern populism, radical (left and right) parties, and subnational (regional and local) politics.
He is currently working on a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship titled Identity at the roots: place-based identity politics in divided societies.
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