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Presidential elections in Poland: has the populism vaccine failed? 

July 17, 2025

Why we need to halt ‘hard right’ in its tracks

July 10, 2025

🔮 How corruption convictions help leaders gain support

July 9, 2025

JD Vance’s international right-wing populism

July 4, 2025

How hard is it to find a date when you vote radical right?

June 11, 2025
May 28, 2025

🔮 According to populists, who are ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’?

Maurits Meijers Populist rhetoric often pits a virtuous people against a corrupt elite. But when populist leaders invoke these definitions, do they always mean the same thing? Maurits Meijers, Robert A. Huber, and Andrej Zaslove explore the role of ideology in such definitions, shedding light on why populism remains a powerful political force Read more
May 1, 2025

Are young men increasingly supporting the far right?

Đorđe Milosav Đorđe Milosav explores how young men are reshaping Europe's political landscape. Drawing on European Election Study data, and based on recent co-authored research, he shows that rising male support for the far right is a generational shift — with potentially serious democratic consequences Read more
April 2, 2025

Explaining the Trump loyalty cult phenomenon

Elizaveta Gaufman Despite Donald Trump's erratic behaviour, his fan base has formed a loyalty ‘cult’ around him. Yet Elizaveta Gaufman and Adrian Favero explain how it is precisely his transgressive behaviour that is feeding Trump's charismatic authority. And this cult-like devotion of Trump loyalists, they argue, is reminiscent of darker times in US history Read more
February 19, 2025

Christian Democracy’s pact with the far right

Martino Comelli Across Europe, mainstream conservative parties are edging closer to ultranationalists and far-right populists. Many see this as a sudden turn. But Martino Comelli argues its roots are part of Christian Democratic strategy DNA. Historically, this strategy has balanced market liberalism with the desire to constrain mass politics Read more
February 11, 2025

China's strategy to consolidate itself as a global superpower

Konrad Szatters Under Xi Jinping, nationalist right-wing rhetoric drives China’s leftist and socialist state ideology. Konrad Szatters describes how elements of this rhetoric echo the far-right populist narratives in numerous European countries Read more

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