🔮 Populism on the ground: insights from Romania

Sorina Soare

Sorina Soare rebuts the commonly held idea that all populist parties are unstructured organisations, exclusively dependent on their leaders’ communication skills. In Romania, through initiatives such as the creation of a mobile hospital, the populist party has been able to forge stable territorial linkages with diverse groups of voters

May 23, 2023

🔮 Populism beyond methodological nationalism

Mari-Liis Jakobson

Mari-Liis Jakobson encourages to pay attention to transnationalising populism, which allows populists to gain knowledge and catch voters who often fly under the radar

May 18, 2023

🔮 Myth: populism is a recent phenomenon

Kirk Hawkins

Populism is a chronic condition rather than a recent phenomenon writes Kirk Hawkins. When we recognise the historical roots of populism, we can manage this challenge to liberal democracy

May 12, 2023

🔮 Populist citizens do not reject liberal democracy

Maurits Meijers

Maurits Meijers and Andrej Zaslove address the ‘myth’ that populist beliefs among citizens are harmful for liberal democracy. Using insights from recent research, they argue that highly populist citizens are not more likely than other citizens to reject the principles of liberal democracy

May 9, 2023

🔮 Lost in the shuffle: local politics in populism studies

Eliška Drápalová

The study of populism has typically focused on national-level politics, leaving subnational politics lost in the shuffle. Eliška Drápalová argues that underestimating the importance of the sub-national level limits our understanding of the impact that populist movements have – and misses the fascinating developments happening below the national surface

May 4, 2023

🔮 Uncovering the realities of populism in Japan

Masaru Nishikawa

Japanese media and academics continue to link populism with specific political positions. Yet studies show that this is not the case. Masaru Nishikawa raises the fundamental question of whether populism exists in Japan

May 1, 2023

🔮 Why the populist radical right will soon embrace ecologism

Gijs Lambrechts

As the intersection between the crisis of representative democracy and the climate crisis grows bigger, Gijs Lambrechts argues that climate action will soon take centre stage in the discourse of the populist radical right

April 27, 2023

🔮 Brothers of Italy is not a post or neo-fascist party, but it might pose an illiberal challenge

Leonardo Puleo

Labelling populist far right parties as fascist is misleading, write Leonardo Puleo and Gianluca Piccolino. Vague accusations of fascism gloss over the genuine threats the radical right poses to democracy

April 25, 2023

🔮 Why the two-dimensional policy space is key to understanding populist parties

Robert A. Huber

Populism is often considered to be high among parties with strong anti-immigration positions or Euroscepticism. Robert A. Huber, Michael Jankowski and Christina-Marie Juen argue that not the general left-right position of parties affects their level of populism but that collectivist positions on the parties’ salient issue dimension are crucial

April 21, 2023

🔮 Populism and the nexus of illiberalism

Marcel Lewandowsky

Marcel Lewandowsky argues that much research on populism suffers from that a contextual blind spot: it overlooks the broad variety of illiberal attitudes of which populism is only one variant. Here, he calls for more research on this ‘invisible coalition’ of illiberal attitudes

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