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November 19, 2024

🔮 Populist radical-right parties are developing distinct education policies

Oliver Gruber

Oliver Gruber and Philipp Schnell examine how populist radical-right parties are extending their influence far beyond traditional populist policy areas, such as immigration. Across Europe, these parties are switching their focus to education policy.

November 12, 2024

🔮 What explains the global appeal of authoritarian populism?

Gülşen Doğan

Gülşen Doğan describes how charismatic leadership, propaganda, and a commitment to stable governance are behind the rise of autocratic populists.

September 20, 2024

🔮 How to understand the rise of authoritarian populism

Armin Schäfer

We should understand the rise of authoritarian populism as a substantive ideology, write Armin Schäfer and Michael Zürn.

September 3, 2024

🔮 Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni: the power of populist exclusionary rhetoric

Jacob Wentz

Jacob Wentz analyses populist rhetoric and communication strategies in the election campaigns of Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni. Both leaders adopt similar approaches, criticising traditional media, personalising politics, and using language that marginalises immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community. We should not, he argues, underestimate the power of their rhetoric.

August 7, 2024

🔮 The rising tide of populism in Canada since the Freedom Convoy

Jamie Gillies

Populist impulses are having a growing impact on the political landscape of several Western-style democracies. Jamie Gillies, Vincent Raynauld and Angela Wisniewski unpack the effects of populism in Canada, arguing that populist strategies grew as public faith in government messaging eroded during the Covid-19 pandemic.

July 29, 2024

🔮 Small homelands: populist radical right, territories and localism

Elisa Bellè

The study of the populist radical right has recently turned to localism. Elisa Bellè argues that this is related to the distinctly territorial nature of some of its recent successes.

July 18, 2024

🔮 Feminist mobilisation, sexism, and radical-right support in Spain

Eva Anduiza

Eva Anduiza and Guillem Rico argue that sexist attitudinal backlash is partially responsible for the rise of the Spanish radical populist right. The electoral consequences of changes in sexist attitudes seem to be related more to heightened feminist mobilisation than to the increasing visibility and normalisation of the radical right

July 8, 2024

🔮 Anti-systemic populism during the Covid-19 pandemic

Frederik Henriksen

Frederik Henriksen analyses anti-systemic, populist movements during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, he explains how these movements rely on alternative news media to establish their own digital information bubbles, and shows how ideological partisanship evolved in these environments

June 19, 2024

🔮 Populist attitudes as thermometers of democratic quality

Marie-Isabel Theuwis

Populist attitudes are responsive to perceived improvements in the democratic system. Marie-Isabel Theuwis and Rosa Kindt argue that this makes them a useful means to measure democratic quality

June 11, 2024

🔮 School and hospital closures increase support for right-wing populist parties

Niels Nyholt

Niels Nyholt argues that voters’ everyday experiences with political decisions can substantiate populist parties' anti-elitist arguments. When mainstream politicians accommodate changes in settlement patterns by merging schools and hospitals, some communities are left without nearby services. Here, right-wing populist parties offer an electoral outlet for residents feeling left behind

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🔮 Populist radical-right parties are developing distinct education policies

🔮 What explains the global appeal of authoritarian populism?

🔮 How to understand the rise of authoritarian populism

🔮 Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni: the power of populist exclusionary rhetoric

🔮 The rising tide of populism in Canada since the Freedom Convoy

🔮 Small homelands: populist radical right, territories and localism

🔮 Feminist mobilisation, sexism, and radical-right support in Spain

🔮 Anti-systemic populism during the Covid-19 pandemic

🔮 Populist attitudes as thermometers of democratic quality

🔮 School and hospital closures increase support for right-wing populist parties

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