Born in 2009, the Five Star Movement (FSM) has been one of the most electorally successful
European populist parties since 2013. While its classification as a populist party is …

This introduction presents the conceptual and analytical framework which constitutes the
background for the special issue entitled 'Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises' …

Despite the burgeoning literature, evidence on how right-wing populists frame and act on
energy and climate issues is limited and even more scarce for other types of populist parties …

This contribution is conceived as a resource on the state of European populist parties before
the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It reports on cross-national comparative findings …

This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries—Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—for the first 30 years of multi-party competition …

The article analyses the organisation of the Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość
[PiS]) in Poland. The case of PiS does not only allow us to explore the organisational …

While the diversity of populism has received considerable attention, surprisingly little is
known about populist parties that defy clear-cut left-right categorization. We show that …

The geographical patterns of the Italian electoral discontent have been strengthened by the
European elections of 2019. The growing populist sentiments have been fuelled by the …

Corruption has become a central issue of electoral campaigns in Central and Eastern
Europe. The EU and international economic organizations first emphasized the fight against …

Despite a growing body of literature on the advancement of autocratic tactics and toolkits in
competitive authoritarian regimes (CARs), we lack sufficient knowledge on the strategies …