Coming soon, (unfortunaltely) it could not be more timely... 📺📰📻🚨 www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...

Thanks @populismblog.bsky.social for the opportunity to share and discuss our book. We are happy that the reception of the book is so positive. It would not have been possible without our exceptional authors!

New post for POP 📢 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is a great resource for teaching and learning 🔥 It was a pleasure to publish this article written by the editors of this amazing project @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social   us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/po...

An Introduction to Populism (Again…) Populism isn’t just another political buzzword (well, it's also that...)—but it is an important tool to understand today's world, if used correctly. The problem? Everyone talks about populism, but few can actually pin down what it is. Is it a dangerous threat…

I'm elaborating on the concept of Fascist Zeitgeist for a book I'm writing (😜), and I found this article I wrote for The Loop (@ecprtheloop.bsky.social) a couple of years ago, and decided it's time to share it again... theloop.ecpr.eu/the-fascist-...

🧵 Together with Lea Heyne & @marinacostalobo.bsky.social we just published “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Transformation of the Portuguese Right” Yes, the title is a spaghetti Western wink — because the plot twists on the PT Right seem like a movie 🎬 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WU7GH... 👇

Em co-autoria com Lea Heyne e Luca Manucci @populismblog.bsky.social, publicámos um artigo na @sespjournal.bsky.social sobre a Transformação da Direita portuguesa: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WU7GH... Resumo do artigo em PT 👇 I will leave to @populismblog.bsky.social the thread in English. 1/10

More on this soon, but bery happy to see it published in a stellar special issue for @sespjournal.bsky.social, with the amazing Lea Heyne and @marinacostalobo.bsky.social 🔥 Unfortunately it's gated, but here you can find 50 free copies... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WU7GH...

📢 Duas novidades muito entusiasmantes saíram no Brasil sobre o meu trabalho... Uma entrevista sobre o meu livro *Sobre o populismo: entrevistas com especialistas* e outra na Folha de S. Paulo sobre nostalgia autoritária e o painel sobre o tema que organizei em abril nas Joint Sessions da ECPR 🔥

It is always a pleasure to publish amazing new entries! Thanks to the students, prof Andrea Peto, @alinadr.bsky.social, @civica.bsky.social and the amazing team at The Loop And if you want to contribute to the series on illiberalism for the @ecprtheloop.bsky.social get in contact...

🚨 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social 🔥 How did far-right parties go from political outcasts to election contenders in Germany, Portugal, Spain & Sweden? Turns out, stigma doesn’t last forever… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌊 #IlliberalWave No.42 💪 In many countries, the patriotic man is the face of illiberal masculinity. 🗣️ Paula Iacobescu explores the illiberal male ideal in contemporary #RomanianPolitics, through its figurehead, #GeorgeSimion. #GenderingIlliberalism 👉 buff.ly/0hHgjNx

🌊 #IlliberalWave No.41 📈 #AntiLGBTQ+ sentiment has recently surged in #Romania. 🗣️ Avery Gozu argues that illiberal candidates' weaponisation of homophobia runs deeper than just insults – it is embedded in a socio-cultural web of hetero-nationalism and #HegemonicMasculinity. 👉 buff.ly/7FB9BFd

📢 Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published 🎉 📖 Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! 💙 Link below for the e-book 👇

📖 Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article now has a volume & issue number! In our work, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social, @caterinafr.bsky.social & I overview far-right contentious politics in Europe and argue for a ‘normalisation of protest’. 🔗 50 free copies available at this link: shorturl.at/iiDrt

Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

New paper @electoralstudies.bsky.social With @gricoc.bsky.social and @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social we study the presence of legislators with urban and rural backgrounds in national parliaments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

New article! 📚 "A Normal(ised) Far-Right Party? A Long-Term Perspective on the #FPÖ's Electoral Strength" out in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. It analyses long-term organizational integration, the 2024 success & growing elite openess towards the FPÖ. ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 New piece out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social with the great @mlorimer.bsky.social & Marianna Griffini! We compare the 2023 🇳🇱 & 2024 🇫🇷 snap elections: different systems, but shared patterns: ➡️ Gov’t instability ➡️ Continued rise and mainstreaming of the far right 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm currently teaching a BA course on social movements, and many students struggle a bit with the idea that social movements were somehow able to mobilise people before there was the internet. Which makes this, about social movements' localised social media strategies, even more interesting.

Can populist parties produce a Robin Hood Effect by bringing new emphasis to welfare? Are they a corrective to liberal democracy in terms of political representation? [SPOLIER] No! Very proud of this paper for @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

João Pinhal wrote an excellent piece on how the Portuguese media help the far-right party Chega 📢📺📻📰 Sad, but timely and well informed.

📢 Great article about how the Portuguese media have helped normalising Chega, the far-right party that went from 1 MP to 58 MPs in just six years 🔥 By the amazing João Pinhal... voxeurop.eu/en/portugal-...

Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

“What is gained from 27 interviews with the same person? Where is the informative value?” asks João Carvalho, who accuses the media of no longer caring about political pluralism: “They give much more attention to political figures who generate controversy”

Shout out to Lea Heyne and Luca Manucci @populismblog.bsky.social whose work on populist radical right electorate in Portugal was mentioned on my fav politics podcast @therestpolitics.bsky.social this morning!

Super proud of @larboe.bsky.social first article, in which she, together with @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social and myself, shows that far-right parties in the European Parliament increasingly embrace illiberal ideas

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

#Populism and #welfare New publication on @jeppjournal.bsky.social with the amazing @eborghetto.bsky.social and Derek A. Epp A long time in the making, but it's finally out there 🔥 TLDR, populists do not produce any Robin Hood effect when it comes to welfare www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📚📚📚 New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡 Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘 Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf

One last presentation before leaving Rio de Janeiro 🌴🌄 Entre a Memória e a Política: A Direita Radical e os Legados do Autoritarismo, for the IESP-UERJ Lecture Series. I take the opportunity to thanks João Feres Júnior and IESP for the hospitality during these months! iesp.uerj.br/evento/ciclo...

Hey @sentimentbot.bsky.social what's the score? 🔭📊⚗️

Join us Apr 3, 2:30PM GMT for the Social Movs & Pol Action Sem! "Movement Parties of the Far Right: Understanding Nativist Mobilization" @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it Info: cies.iscte-iul.pt/np4EN/4434.h... Link: bit.ly/3D9XRP3@CIES...

🚨 Global wave of autocratization continues, level of democracy for average citizen back to 1985. Fewer democracies than autocracies for first time in 20 years 🚨

Book review 📢 Antonis Galanopoulos (@antonisgal.bsky.social) talks about the handbook on populism edited by Yannis Stavrakakis & Giorgos Katsambekis (@gkatsambekis.bsky.social)🔥 Much (too much?) has been said about #populism, and yet... populismobserver.com/2025/03/12/d...

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v15 and the V-dem Institute Democracy Report 2025 The Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... DR25: "25 Years of Autocratization - Democracy Trumped?": v-dem.net/publications... #DR25 #DemocracyReport2025 #VDemDatasetV15 #polisky #PoliticalScienceData #PoliSciSky 🧵1(3)

Do we need yet another handbook on populism? Populism has been one of the most debated topics in contemporary political science, drawing waves of scholarly attention after major global events. In particular, the dual shocks of Brexit and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 cemented populism as a…

One more event today in beautiful Rio de Janeiro 🌴🌄 At 5 PM I will be presenting my work at the laboratorio de partidos eleições e politica comparada! I will discuss the Portuguese/Spanish far right, the memorial struggle happening in Brazil right now & much more www.instagram.com/p/DG3jfEyJ3p...

Look at the gap between the U.S. left and the U.S. right. Even look at where the U.S. right site in comparison to the French and Italian right who are the conscious heirs to the Vichy and Mussolini legacies. Pretty breathtaking. on.ft.com/4iqh3qA

#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright

Last year, @populismblog.bsky.social asked me to reflect on my article "The Populist Zeitgeist", which gave me an opportunity to re-read and re-think the article.

Tomorrow l will discuss the links between the authoritarian past and the far right today in Europe and Latin America. Thanks to Marcio Grijó Vilarouca for inviting me to present at the beautiful building of the Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, in the Escola de Ciências Sociais.

Tomorrow at ICS Lisboa, talking about political hate...on Valentine's Day! 😍You can also tune in online: www.ics.ulisboa.pt/evento/measu...

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 "Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America" Central European University, 22-23/9/2025 Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

🚨 New article out at EJPR with the dream team @fredericofs.bsky.social Loes Aaldering @kgattermann.bsky.social Diego Garzia TLDR: dark personality traits (esp. Machiav.) in in-party candidates are associated with higher #AffectivePolarization Article: tinyurl.com/4wnuhcad Open data: osf.io/2c7w4/

The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man. The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.

One for those who like field experiments with validated behavioural outcomes and political identities doi.org/10.1086/730718

It is time to start the Brazilian tour of presentations 📢 This Thursday I will be at the University of Brasilia to talk about far-right parties and authrotiarian legacies at the 'Week of Sociology'. Here the full program. sol.unb.br/images/2025/...

1/ 📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 for our 9th Annual Workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy in today’s turbulent world. Keynotes: Judith Butler & Yannis Stavrakakis 🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 📝 Submit by 14 Mar 2025 More info: www.psapopulism.org/events/2025-...