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The Populist Divisive, Activist Ideas
In this chapter the ideational roots of the populist ideas are traced back to thinkers like Rousseau, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt, later...
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Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW): Left-Wing Authoritarian—and Populist? An Empirical Analysis
Germany’s relatively stable party system faces a new left-authoritarian challenger: Sahra Wagenknecht’s Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) party. First...
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Euro-Mediterranean populism: navigating populist foreign policy around the Mare Nostrum
Populist politics in Southern Europe displays several distinctive patterns related to a shared history, geography, culture, and economy, while being...
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Populist attitudes among parliamentary candidates in Britain
Rising support for populist parties and candidates has become a key story of recent decades, making headlines in Western democracies and beyond....
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Initiatives opposing populist parties in Europe: types, methods, and patterns
Departing from a critique of existing classification schemes in work on ‘militant’ and ‘defending’ democracy, the article presents a new typology for...
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Triggering populist support in Europe: how internal political efficacy shapes the effect of economic vulnerability on party preferences
When and why do economic grievances result in support for populist parties? We address a long-standing puzzle in understanding populist voters....
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Tolerant and intolerant responses to populist parties: who does what, when and why?
This article introduces the special issue of Comparative European Politics on Tolerant and Intolerant Responses to Populist Parties: Who does what,...
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Campaigns and regimes: party characteristics, political transformations and the outcomes of populist governments
The growing success of populist parties in western democracies has generated lively academic debate surrounding the changes this populist wave has...
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Populist Bullshit in International Politics
Populists often perform a particular type of leadership: that of the charismatic strongman capable of channelling the people’s will. Such populists...
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Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis
The burgeoning research into the impact of populism on foreign policy mostly revolves around polarising chief executives, but has still paid little...
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The strange bedfellows of populism and liberalism: the effect of populist attitudes on the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and policies to contain it
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on everyday life, where people feel affected both economically and health-wise by the spread of...
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National role conceptions and populist parties in Europe between heterogeneity and convergence
Drawing from the National Role Conceptions (NRCs) framework, this paper seeks to assess whether, beneath the ideological, structural or discursive...
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What do we (not) know about demand-side populism? A systematic literature review on populist attitudes
Research on populist attitudes has bloomed in recent years, especially among political science and communication scholars. While this trend is...
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Catholic Liberalism: An Anti-Populist Proposal
This chapter explores the axiological convergence between classical liberalism and Catholic Social Thought (CST). The chapter argues that CST and...
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Populist pragmatism: the nationalisation of local government strategies by the Rassemblement National
Existing studies have explored the territorialisation of the Rassemblement National (RN) in terms of its regional variation in patterns of support...
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Populist radical right parties and discursive opportunities during Covid-19. Blame attribution in times of crisis
This study examines how populist radical right parties (PRRP) adapt to the discursive opportunities delivered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Conducting...
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How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain
In this paper, I argue that ideology has a moderating role on how populist attitudes shape support for three liberal democratic values: the...
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Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right
We test the somewhat counter-intuitive expectation that support for populist radical right (PRR) parties at the national level is associated with...
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Populist Foreign Policy Regional Perspectives of Populism in the International Scene
This book explores the global phenomenon of populism in relation to states' foreign policy, addressing two key questions: How do populists mold their...
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David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party
Brexit was often associated with a recent upsurge of populism in Western democracies, with the idea of re-engaging with the people being construed as...