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April 24, 2023

🦋 What can we make of transnational industrial democracy after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster?

Juliane Reinecke

The 2013 Rana Plaza disaster led to an unprecedented initiative based on principles of industrial democracy to prevent future factory deaths in the Bangladesh garment sector. Yet, write Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey, the success of the initiative depends on whether transnational and local actors cooperate and whether a market-driven approach to labour rights renders effective in the absence of a disaster

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

April 19, 2023

🔮 Narendra Modi: India's 'vulnerable' strongman populist leader

Proma Raychaudhury

Focusing on Narendra Modi’s populist leadership in India, Proma Ray Chaudhury argues that displays of vulnerability by strongman populist leaders can offer insights into the resilience of populist regimes

April 18, 2023

🌈 Genderwashing or genderbashing? Reconciling the different faces of modern autocrats

Elin Bjarnegård

Gender and authoritarianism are interconnected – but in different and unexpected ways. Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg think the relationship between them deserves more attention in political science. Here, they expose the relationship in terms of two autocrat strategies: genderwashing and genderbashing

April 17, 2023

🔮 We cannot ignore the populist radical-right impact on the welfare state

Juliana Chueri

Juliana Chueri writes that radical right parties are transforming the welfare state, by creating a moral separation between the ‘deserving’ and the ‘undeserving’. This secures benefits to working nationals, while leaving unprotected immigrants and the long-term unemployed

April 4, 2023

🔮 Looking beyond populism… to better understand populism

Bartek Pytlas

The sometimes inflationary use of ‘populism’ has prompted calls to discard the term altogether. Bartek Pytlas argues that what we need instead is a more differentiated and dynamic approach to populism - one that involves contrasting populism against other ideas, as well as observing how political actors use these ideas in practice

March 31, 2023

🔮 How early insights about populism have stood the test of time

Reinhard Heinisch

The more populism has evolved and the more we have learned about this supposedly elusive and contested concept, the more we recognise that the early insights we gained about the phenomenon have stood the test of time. Reinhard Heinisch argues that although these early lessons already pointed to the importance of credible change agency, ambiguity, and territoriality as crucial features for populism's success, their role is still not fully understood

March 30, 2023

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

Hannah Chapman

Amid concerns of declining support for democracy worldwide, recent research points to a way forward. Hannah Chapman, Margaret Hanson, Valery Dzutsati, and Paul DeBell show that how people define democracy influences their support for it

March 30, 2023

The dilemma of postal voting

Miroslav Nemčok

Postal voting is praised for its ability to lower the costs of electoral participation. However, Miroslav Nemčok and Johanna Peltoniemi argue that postal voting has its limits. If voters doubt their ballots will make it to the ballot box uncompromised, they are unlikely to exercise their democratic right

March 29, 2023

The threat of artificial intelligence is not just real, it’s here

Avery Reyna

The technologies of generative artificial intelligence and large language models, and their associated algorithms, are increasingly shaping our everyday lives. Avery Reyna argues that the constant need to develop groundbreaking technologies will turn these seemingly abstract algorithmic harms into real-life consequences felt by everyone across the globe

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🦋 What can we make of transnational industrial democracy after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster?

🔮 Populism and the nexus of illiberalism

🔮 Narendra Modi: India's 'vulnerable' strongman populist leader

🌈 Genderwashing or genderbashing? Reconciling the different faces of modern autocrats

🔮 We cannot ignore the populist radical-right impact on the welfare state

🔮 Looking beyond populism… to better understand populism

🔮 How early insights about populism have stood the test of time

🦋 What do people mean when they say they support democracy – and why should we care?

The dilemma of postal voting

The threat of artificial intelligence is not just real, it’s here

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