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The end of liberal international order? Open
These are not happy times for liberal internationalists. No one can be sure how deep the crisis of liberal internationalism runs. However, in what follows, I argue that despite its troubles, liberal internationalism still has a future. The…
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The politics of social status: economic and cultural roots of the populist right Open
This paper explores the factors that have recently increased support for candidates and causes of the populist right across the developed democracies, especially among a core group of working‐class men. In the context of debates about whet…
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National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy Open
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream pol…
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Ethno‐nationalist populism and the mobilization of collective resentment Open
Scholarly and journalistic accounts of the recent successes of radical‐right politics in Europe and the United States, including the Brexit referendum and the Trump campaign, tend to conflate three phenomena: populism, ethno‐nationalism an…
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What Is Populism Open
'This lucid guide is essential reading' Guardian From Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on rise across globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What prec…
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The geography of EU discontent Open
Support for parties opposed to European Union (EU) integration has risen rapidly, and a wave of discontent has taken over the EU. This discontent is purportedly driven by the very factors behind the surge of populism: differences in age, w…
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What unites the voter bases of populist parties? Comparing the electorates of 15 populist parties Open
Various scholars have argued and demonstrated that Western European populist parties have something in common. Although these parties adhere to various ideologies and employ different organizational forms and political styles, they all end…
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The European Trust Crisis and the Rise of Populism Open
We study the implications of the Great Recession for voting for antiestablishment parties, as well as for general trust and political attitudes, using regional data across Europe. We find a strong relationship between increases in unemploy…
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Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The Anticolonial Frame and the Rise of Illiberal Populism Open
This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights and sex education, which vilify the term gender in public debates and policy document. The anti-gender movement emerged simultaneously …
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Populism as an Expression of Political Communication Content and Style: A New Perspective Open
In this article, the introduction to a special International Journal of Press/Politics ( IJPP ) issue on populism, we articulate and define populism as a communication phenomenon. We provide an overview of populist political communication …
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Social media and populism: an elective affinity? Open
Since the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, an intense debate has developed around the connection between social media and populist movements. In this article, I put forward some theses about the reasons for the a…
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Taking back control? Investigating the role of immigration in the 2016 vote for Brexit Open
The 2016 referendum marked a watershed moment in the history of the United Kingdom. The public vote to leave the European Union (EU)—for a ‘Brexit’—brought an end to the country’s membership of the EU and set it on a fundamentally differen…
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Beyond protest and discontent: A cross‐national analysis of the effect of populist attitudes and issue positions on populist party support Open
Studies on populist parties – or ‘supply‐side populism’ more generally – are numerous. Nevertheless, the connection with demand‐side dynamics, and particularly the populist characteristics or tendencies of the electorate, requires more sch…
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The Emotional Underpinnings of Populism: How Anger and Fear Affect Populist Attitudes Open
Popular accounts of populist movements often point to negative emotions as a key motivating factor underlying their support. However, little systematic research has been devoted to examining differences in how distinct negative emotions af…
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The Elite Is Up to Something: Exploring the Relation Between Populism and Belief in Conspiracy Theories Open
We explore the relationship between populist attitudes and conspiratorial beliefs on the individual level with two studies using American samples. First, we test whether and what kinds of conspiratorial beliefs predict populist attitudes. …
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Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism Open
A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct forms of authoritarian populism. In this opening pap…
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Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions Open
Theoretically, populism has been conceptualized as a political ideology with three sub-dimensions: anti-elitism attitudes, a preference for popular sovereignty, and a belief in the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people. However, empir…
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Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science Open
Populism is on the rise in many countries. Scholars have stated that it is characteristic for political populism to describe society as a fundamental struggle between an allegedly virtuous people and political elites which are portrayed ne…
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After the Brexit referendum: revisiting populism as an ideology Open
In late May 2016, shortly before the British referendum on membership of the European Union that resulted in a modest majority of 51.9% for leaving the EU (and among those eligible to vote, a 37.47...
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Dark Participation Open
Citizen participation in the news-making process has been a hopeful promise since the 1990s. Observers hoped for a rejuvenation of journalism and democracy alike. However, many of the enthusiastic theoretical concepts on user engagement di…
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Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered Open
Growing conventional wisdom holds that a chief driver of the populist vote is economic insecurity. I contend that this view overstates the role of economic insecurity as an explanation in several ways. First, it conflates the significance …
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Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism Open
There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, particularly of the right-wing kind. I start with an empirical …
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Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe Open
This article examines the development of campaigns against “gender ideology” in Europe, leading to the emergence of a specific family of mobilizations that we call anti-gender campaigns. These campaigns, started in the mid-1990s as a Catho…
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Populist politics and vaccine hesitancy in Western Europe: an analysis of national-level data Open
Vaccine hesitancy and political populism are driven by similar dynamics: a profound distrust in elites and experts. It is necessary for public health scholars and actors to work to build trust with parents that are reluctant to vaccinate t…
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization Open
Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while.I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would p…
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The Ideational Approach to Populism Open
Although the study of populism has traditionally been the domain of Latin Americanists, research here has become increasingly comparative. One of the most important payoffs of this comparative work is conceptual. Rather than defining popul…
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Extreme right-wing populism in Europe: revisiting a reified association Open
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Discourse Studies on 10 Apr 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2017.1309325.
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When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs Open
Multidimensional concepts are non-compensatory when higher values on one component cannot offset lower values on another. Thinking of the components of a multidimensional phenomenon as non-compensatory rather than substitutable can have wi…
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“<i>They</i> Did It”: The Effects of Emotionalized Blame Attribution in Populist Communication Open
How can we explain the persuasiveness of populist messages, and who are most susceptible to their effects? These questions remain largely unanswered in extant research. This study argues that populist messages are characterized by assignin…
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Varieties of Populism across a Left‐Right Spectrum: The Case of the Front National, the Northern League, Podemos and Five Star Movement Open
This article engages in a comparative analysis of populist parties across the West‐European left‐right spectrum. Conceptualizing populism as a ‘thin ideology’, we argue that populist parties show both similarities and differences, and that…