In their hasty response to the recent wave of populist victories, many analysts have ignored
previous scholarship on populism. In contrast, contributors to this special issue draw from …

In recent years, scholars have started to measure and explain populism at the micro-level,
as an attitude that individuals hold about politics. Multiple scales have been proposed but …

In this introduction, the editors lay out the general framework of the volume. We first take up
a series of recent developments within Europe, stressing the need to study the populist …

The ideational core of populism, constructing the binary opposition between the “good”
people and “culprit” others, is not expressed univocally throughout the globe. Not …

The study of populist attitudes has thus far drawn heavily on ideational definitions of
populism, focussing almost exclusively on attitudes related to dimensions such as people …

The paper offers a first-time investigation of populism at the mass level in Greece. Its
objectives are to examine the socio-economic factors which facilitate the adoption of populist …

The 2008 economic crisis brought an increasing support for some European radical left
parties (RLPs) and renewed academic attention to this party family. This article …

Most studies see demand for populist forces driven by broad sociological factors that make
certain issues salient among specific constituencies; however, this argument is normally not …

In 2004 few could imagine Greece on the brink of state bankruptcy. Greece featured in the
global news as the proudly successful host of the Olympic Games, it had successfully joined …

This article focuses on the dynamics of polarization emerging within Greek political culture in
the postauthoritarian setting. Following a brief historical framing, we trace Left–Right …