Populism has emerged as a central explanation employed by both media outlets and
scholars for the mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis. Nonetheless, the relationship between …

We study the consequences of populism for economic performance and the quality of
bureaucracy. When voters lose trust in representative democracy, populists strategically …

The rise of political polarization within western societies has been portrayed by events such
as the United States Capitol riot or the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. In …

Canada is often praised for successfully integrating ethnically diverse immigrants into its
multicultural nation, so successful indeed that the country has been considered an exception …

Research on the far right has been a booming field for decades now, with far-right parties
generally being much more researched than their right, centre and left counterparts, even …

The literature on populism is divided on whether economic factors are significant and robust
causes of populism. To clarify this, we performed the first systematic review and meta …

Although scholars hypothesized early on that social belonging is an important predictor for
voting behavior, its role for populist voting remains empirically ambiguous and …

Much of the contemporary literature on populism focuses on its status as a “thin” ideology
comprising three key components: people-centrism, anti-elitism, and anti-pluralism. Populist …

Is populism electorally effective and, if so, why? Scholars agree that populism is a set of
people-centric, anti-pluralist, and anti-elitist ideas that can be combined with various …

This article proposes to explore the interaction between populism and environmentalism in
the discourse of populist radical left parties, through a case study of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's …