Responding to Rueda's questions, this essay explains the political-strategic approach (PSA)
to populism and highlights its analytical strengths, which have become even more important …

This paper studies party-movement interactions in Germany, focusing on Die Linke and the
AfD, the two most recent additions to Germany's multi-party system. The electoral rise of both …

Using an original protest event dataset covering 30 European countries and the period 2000–
2021, this paper studies the nature and drivers of protest mobilisation across three major …

(jjolivas@ poli. uned. es/jj olivas-osuna@ lse. ac. uk). José Javier Olivas Osuna dirige un
proyecto interdisciplinar comparativo sobre populismo y secesionismo en el Departamento …

Studies of populism have shifted from substantive to discursive/performative and institutional
perspectives in recent decades. This shift resolved some long-standing problems but …

Populism is a powerful social force that has reshaped the political landscapes of many
nations since the turn of the 21st century. Much of the success of populist movements is …

The present research focuses on populism as a bottom-up phenomenon that emerges from
shared perceptions of relative deprivation. We predict that by serving as a shared …

Many recent protest movements, from the 2011 square occupation movements to the Gilets
Jaunes display typical populist features, starting from an appeal to the people vs the elites …

In the 2015 local elections, political formations with their roots in social movements took
control of several Spanish city councils, including Madrid and Barcelona. The wave of …

In this article, I discuss the conceptualization of movement parties and bridge it with that of
communication practices. In particular, I show how the analysis of communication practices …