Articles by Sarah Engler

November 11, 2020

It’s not just populism! Politicising corruption in election campaigns

Sarah Engler
Only populist parties fight elections using anti-corruption slogans, right? Wrong. Sarah Engler finds that other parties too, sloganeer in this way – many without any reference to the ‘corrupt elite’
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Sarah Engler
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich

Sarah Engler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, in the Research group ‘Comparative Politics with a focus on Empirical Democracy Research’ and at the Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA). She is also working on a new project on the politicisation of democratic principles in Europe. Other research interests include populism, party systems and party polarisation in Western and Eastern Europe.

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