Mattia Zulianello and Petra Guasti explore and rebut three die-hard myths about populism. This, they argue, on the one hand guards against overestimating populism as a phenomenon. On the other, it warns that we must not underestimate the political strength of the so-called populist radical right
Petra Guasti takes inspiration from the natural world to propose a way to organise the taxonomy of democratic theory. In a joint effort, and using a three-step process akin to Linnaeus and Darwin, she suggests that democratic theorists could create an encyclopedia of democracies
Her research focuses on the reconfiguration of the political landscape, and revolves around three themes – representation, democratisation, and populism.
Petra's research has appeared in Democratic Theory, Democratization, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, European Political Science, East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, Politics and Governance, East European Politics, and elsewhere.
For over a decade, together with Zdenka Mansfeldova, Petra has served as an expert for Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Sustainable Governance Indicators. She has been a V-Dem expert since 2018.
In 2020 she was appointed to the expert board of the Nation in Transit (Freedom House).
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