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
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan
Fred is involved in the Volkswagen Stiftung-funded research project ProDem.
He was awarded a PhD in Social and Political Sciences by the European University Institute in September 2021.
His PhD project dealt with the participation of populist radical right parties in local government in Western Europe.
Fred\'s publications have appeared in Political Science Research and Methods, Government and Opposition, Representation, and Contemporary Italian Politics.
