📢 ECPS Interview 🇬🇧 Dr. Aaron Winter: The UK Is Witnessing the Mainstreaming of an Overt White Supremacist and Ethno-Nationalist Discourse ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-winter-th...

📢 ECPS Publication Alert! 📕Populism & Politics (P&P) 🇮🇷 Silenced Voices in a Democratic Dawn: How Iranian Constitutionalists Weaponized ‘the People’ Against Minorities ✍️ By Dr. Ali Ragheb 📗Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/silenced-voi... ⬇️ Download PDF: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/wp-content/u...

📢 ECPS Publication Alert! 📕 Populism & Politics (P&P) 🇨🇱 The OutKast: Can José Antonio Kast Lead Chile into 2030 – And Thereby Revive Transatlanticism? ✍️ By Miguel Zlosilo & Dr. Roland Benedikter 📕 Read: www.populismstudies.org/the-outkast-... ⬇️ Download: www.populismstudies.org/wp-content/u...

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🇮🇳 Dr. Amir Ali: Democratic Backsliding Is Global, but India’s Crisis Is Unfolding on a Far More Dangerous Scale ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch video: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6yp... 📕 Read: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-amir-ali-...

📢 ECPS Interview 🇮🇳 Dr. Amir Ali: Democratic Backsliding Is Global, but India’s Crisis Is Unfolding on a Far More Dangerous Scale ⚠️ Reflecting on the 2026 state elections, Dr. Ali argues that democratic erosion in India has reached “a worrying scale.” 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-amir-ali-...

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 📌 Stefánia Kapronczay: Democracy in Hungary Must Not Simply Return, It Must Return in a Better Form ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📺 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WNa... 📕Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/stefania-kap...

📢 ECPS / European Observatory ⚡️Nakba Day in London: The Fight for the Narrative 🚨Dr. João Ferreira Dias examines how the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been transformed into a broader struggle over identity, immigration, Islam, nationalism & belonging. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/nakba-day-in...

📢 ECPS Interview ⚡️ Human Rights Defender Stefánia Kapronczay: Democracy in Hungary Must Not Simply Return, It Must Return in a Better Form ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/stefania-kap...

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO🎥 🗳️ Dr. James Loxton: Democratic Backsliding Is Driven More by Populism than Authoritarian Successor Parties ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhpI... 📕 Read now: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-loxton-de...

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🤖 Professor Quinn Slobodian: For Musk and Muskism, Democracy Is Yesterday’s Problem ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=daPS... 📕Read now: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-slobodi...

📢 ECPS Interview 📌 Dr. James Loxton: Democratic Backsliding Is Driven More by Populism than Authoritarian Successor Parties ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read & explore one of the most important debates on democracy, populism, and authoritarianism. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-loxton-de...

📢 ECPS Interview 🤖 Prof. Quinn Slobodian: For Musk & Muskism, Democracy Is Yesterday’s Problem 📖 A vital conversation on neoliberalism, authoritarianism, digital sovereignty, AI governance & the convergence between platform capitalism & far-right populism. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-slobodi...

📹 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇧🇬 Associate Professor Emilia Zankina: Rumen Radev’s Strategy Is to Walk a Fine Line Between Moscow and Brussels ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC78... 📕 Read now: 🔗 populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-z...

📢 ECPS Interview 🇧🇬 Assoc. Prof. Zankina: Radev’s Strategy Is to Walk a Fine Line Between Moscow and Brussels 🚨 Associate Professor Emilia Zankina analyzes Bulgaria’s 2026 political transformation following Rumen Radev’s sweeping electoral victory. 📕 Read:🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-z...

📢 ECPS - Voice of Youth (VoY) 🧩 Constructing “The People”: Racialization in Dutch Populist Discourse ✍️By Lianne Nota In 4-part series, Nota examines how Dutch populist discourse constructs “the people” 🔹Rethinking the Nexus of Racialization & Populism 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/part-iv-reth...

📢 ECPS Interview Video /🎥 VIDEO 🇮🇳 Assoc. Prof. Ajay Gudavarthy: India’s Opposition Cannot Break Majoritarianism Without Breaking Neoliberal Consensus ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr1q... 📕 Read now: 🔗 populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-g...

📢 ECPS Interview 🇮🇳 Assoc. Prof. Ajay Gudavarthy: India’s Opposition Cannot Break Majoritarianism Without Breaking Neoliberal Consensus 🚨 Dr. Gudavarthy offers a rich analysis of India’s 2026 state elections & the evolving architecture of Hindutva populism. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-g...

📢 ECPS Academy Summer School 2026 🌍 Europe Between Oceans: The Future of EU Trade Between the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific 📅 July 6–10, 2026 | 💻 Online (Zoom) 🎓 Calling all undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students! 🚨 Apply now! 🔗 populismstudies.org/ecps-academy...

📢 ECPS Interview 🎥| Now Streaming 🗣️ Prof. Alexandre Lefebvre: Liberals Must Become More Generous with Both Their Resources & Their Attention to Others ✍️ Interview by Selçuk Gültaşlı 🎥 Watch the interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_GJ... 📕 Read the interview: populismstudies.org/prof-lefebvr...

📺 ECPS Interview | Now Streaming 🗳️ Dr. Javier Pérez Sandoval: “The Erosion of Trust Outlasts Electoral Change” ✍️ Interview by Selçuk Gültaşlı ▶️ Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnH2... 📕 Read the interview: populismstudies.org/dr-sandoval-...

📺 ECPS Interview | Now Streaming 🇭🇺 Assoc. Prof. Péter Krekó: “There Are Dangers of Re-autocratization and Abuse of Power in Hungary” ✍️ Interview by Selçuk Gültaşlı ▶️ Watch the interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uU... 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-k...

📢 ECPS Long Read 🇭🇺 Explaining Hungary’s Paradox: Péter Magyar as the Insider Challenger to a Hybrid-Authoritarian System ✍️ By İbrahim Öztürk 🚨Can an insider truly dismantle an authoritarian-populist system without reproducing its logic? 🤔⚖️ 📕 Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/long-read-ex...

📢 ECPS Interview 🗣️ Professor Alexandre Lefebvre: Liberals Must Become More Generous with Both Their Resources & Their Attention to Others 🚨 An important conversation on the future of liberal democracy in an age of populism & global democratic uncertainty. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-lefebvr...

📢 ECPS Interview 🗳️ Dr. Javier Pérez Sandoval: The Erosion of Trust Outlasts Electoral Change ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🚨 An essential conversation on democratic resilience, trust, political violence, and the future of liberal democracy. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-sandoval-...

📢 ECPS Interview 🇭🇺 Assoc. Prof. Péter Krekó: There Are Dangers of Re-autocratization and Abuse of Power in Hungary Krekó, a leading scholar of “informational autocracy,” underscores the risks of concentrated power under a constitutional supermajority. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-k...

📢 ECPS Interview 🎧 Dr. Patch: In the Age of Populism, Politics Becomes a Struggle over Aesthetics 🔍 Dr. Justin Patch shows how music, art, and communal rituals enable citizens to experience themselves as “the people.” 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-patch-in-...

📢 ECPS Commentary 🌍 Decolonizing Populism Theory: Ecological Crisis, Informal Governance, and Democratic Claims in the Global South 📌 Dr. Oludele Solaja challenges dominant understandings of populism by shifting the focus from ideology to material life. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/decolonizing...

📢 ECPS Interview 🗣️ Dr. Milacic: Outbidding Autocrats on Nationalism Only Strengthens Their Legitimacy 🌍 As authoritarian actors weaponize nationalism, Dr. Filip Milacic offers a clear warning: democrats cannot defeat autocrats by imitating their rhetoric. www.populismstudies.org/dr-milacic-o...

📢 ECPS Academy Summer School 2026 🌍 Europe Between Oceans: The Future of EU Trade Between the Atlantic & the Indo-Pacific 📅 July 6–10, 2026 🚨Apply now to join a truly global academic experience at the intersection of trade, geopolitics & populism. 🔗 More info: populismstudies.org/ecps-academy...

📢 ECPS Interview | Ten Years on with Brexit 📌 Prof. Craig Calhoun: Brexit Reveals Regret, Weakened Influence & Intensified Backsliding 🚨 Calhoun offers a reassessment of Brexit's long-term consequences for democracy, identity & geopolitical positioning. 📕 www.populismstudies.org/ten-years-on...

🏛️ European Observatory 📌 Policy Brief: The Conditions for a Democratic Pushback Against Populism ✍️ By Andrea Guidotti 🚨This policy brief provides a research-based assessment of the conditions under which democratic actors can push back against populism. www.populismstudies.org/policy-brief...

📢 ECPS Roundtable in Washington, D.C. 🚨 Populism and the Future of Transatlantic Relations 🏛️ On April 20, 2026, the ECPS convened a high-level roundtable at CAP to assess how populism is reshaping the foundations of transatlantic relations. 📕 Read more: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-roundta...

📢 ECPS Interview 🎓 Professor Adam Przeworski: There Is No Worldwide Crisis of Democracy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🚨 Professor Przeworski challenges the prevailing consensus: “I do not believe there is a worldwide crisis of democracy.” 📕 Read: www.populismstudies.org/professor-pr...

📢 ECPS Symposium 2026 / 🎥 VIDEO & REPORT 📕 🚨 Reforming & Safeguarding Liberal Democracy: Systemic Crises, Populism & Democratic Resilience 📌 Panel 5: Democratic Resistance — Civic Capacity, Strongmen & Economic Coercion 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2P... 📕 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-symposi...

📢 ECPS Symposium 2026 / 🎥 VIDEO & REPORT 📕 🚨 Reforming & Safeguarding Liberal Democracy: Systemic Crises, Populism & Democratic Resilience 📌 Panel 4: Comparative Regional Pathways of Democratic Backsliding & Far-Right 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltfq... 📕 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-symposi...

📢 Symposium2026/ 🎥 VIDEO&REPORT 📕 🚨 Reforming & Safeguarding Liberal Democracy: Systemic Crises, Populism & Democratic Resilience 🎙️Keynote by Prof. Richard Youngs: “Democratic Resilience in Europe — Can It Be Effective?” 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsZK... 📕 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-symposi...

📢 Symposium 2026 / 🎥 VIDEO&REPORT 📕 🚨 Reforming & Safeguarding Liberal Democracy: Crises, Populism & Democratic Resilience 📌 Panel 3: Normalizing Authoritarian Populism — Institutions, Algorithms & Fascist Drift 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQmR... 📕 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-symposi...

📍 ECPS European Observatory / Commentary 🇭🇺 Magyar’s Two Early Signals: Migration, Mitteleuropa, and the Rearticulation of Hungarian Nationalism ✍️ By Dr. João Ferreira Dias ⁉️What comes after Orbán? Not liberal rupture—but strategic rearticulation. 📕Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/peter-magyar...

📢 ECPS Interview 🇧🇬 Assoc. Prof. Petar Stankov: Too Early to Say Bulgaria’s Radev Will Act as an Orbán 2.0, He Looks More Like Fico 📌 Rejecting simplistic analogies, he argues that new PM Rumen Radev will navigate between Brussels and Moscow. 📕 Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-s...

📢 ECPS Interview 🇧🇬 Assoc. Prof. Otova: Under Radev, the Path to Autocracy in Bulgaria Becomes All Too Easy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🗳️ Assoc. Prof. Ildiko Otova unpacks the structural & discursive dynamics shaping Rumen Radev’s rise to power. 📕 Read: www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-o...

📢 ECPS European Observatory / 📝 Commentary 🚨 ‘Ugly, Badly Groomed, and Bitter’: Gendered Delegitimation and Aesthetic Politics ✍️By Gwenaëlle Bauvois 👉 A must-read for understanding the intersection of gender politics, populism & media spectacle. 📕 Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ugly-badly-g...

♻️📊 ECPS Policy Paper 🌴From Waste to Political Weapon: Informal Recycling and Survivalist Populism in Urban Nigeria 📌 This policy brief uncovers the hidden link between environmental governance, informality, and democratic legitimacy in Nigeria. 📗Read now: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/from-waste-t...

📢 ECPS Commentary 🌍 The Ongoing War Between Iran, the United States, and Israel: A Brief Analytical Assessment ⚖️ Prof. Majid Bozorgmehri situates the conflict within a broader matrix of regional rivalry, nuclear deterrence, and asymmetric warfare. 📕 Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-ongoing-...

📢 ECPS Virtual Workshop Series / VIDEO 🎥 🚨 Session 16: Voices of Democracy: Art, Law & Leadership in the Era of Polarization ⚡️ Democracy is not only institutional—but also symbolic, affective, and interpretive. ▶️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-syq... 📕 Read: populismstudies.org/ecps-virtual...

📢 ECPS Collection | 28-Session Workshop Series 🎓 “We, the People” & the Future of Democracy: Interdisciplinary Approaches 📚 Explore the sessions, revisit the debates and engage with today’s most pressing global challenges. 🎥📕Watch Videos & Read Reports: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/collection-o...

📢 ECPS Virtual Workshop Series / REPORT 🚨 Session 16: Voices of Democracy: Art, Law, and Leadership in the Era of Polarization ⚡️The session offered a rich interdisciplinary reflection on democracy under conditions of deepening polarization. 📕 Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-virtual...

📢 ECPS Interview / Ten Years on with Brexit 🎥 VIDEO 🇬🇧 Professor Mark Corner: With Brexit, the UK Has Lost More Than It Has Gained ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥▶️ Watch the interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCW... 📕 Read the conversation: 🔗 populismstudies.org/ten-years-on...

📢 ECPS Interview / 🎥 VIDEO 🇭🇺 Eszter Kováts: Orbán’s Defeat Doesn’t Mean the End of Illiberal Politics in Europe ✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli 🎥▶️ Watch the full interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ic... 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-kovats-or...

📢 ECPS Interview / 🎥 VIDEO 🇬🇧 Professor Portes: Brexit Has Not Solved Britain’s Problems; It Made Them Worse ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥▶️ Watch now the full conversation: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHL6... 📕 Read the full interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/ten-years-on...

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎦 🎥🚨 Professor Pepper Culpepper: Populism Is Democracy’s Way of the People Telling Elites to “Listen Harder” ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎦 Watch the interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFUh... 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-culpepp...