The global ascendance of populism has produced an explosion of research, bringing
together scholarship on American and comparative politics as well as encouraging …

Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain,
the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain …

Illiberalism is an emerging concept in social sciences that remains to be tested by different
disciplines and approaches. Here, I advance a fine-grained frame that should help to …

ABSTRACT Since 2008, Hungary and Poland have developed a distinctive populist
economic program, which has begun to spread to other Central and East European …

How do populists govern in crisis? We address this question by analyzing the actions of
technocratic populists in power during the first wave of the novel coronavirus crisis in the …

While there are some signs of revitalization, social democracy has witnessed a deep
electoral crisis over the last decades. The causes for the decline of social democratic parties …

Russia's support for illiberal movements in Europe has received wide attention. Yet this
promotion of illiberalism should not be seen as merely a cynical political ploy by the Putin …

While not typically the focus for academic or journalistic analyses, centre right political
parties have been, are and will likely remain key actors in migration policy and politics …

Much recent discussion about democratic dysfunction has focused on polarization. In
Europe, however, it is not so much polarization and partisanship that have led to democratic …

Recent events have raised concern about potential threats to democracy within Western
countries. If Western citizens who are open to authoritarian governance share a common set …