How will the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic develop in the coming months
and years? Based on an expert survey, we examine key aspects that are likely to influence …

Societal crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, produce societal instability and create a
fertile ground for radicalization. Extremists exploit such crises by distributing disinformation …

Based on an original protest event analysis (PEA) dataset covering 30 European countries,
this paper provides three sets of results. Despite its unlikeliness due to lockdowns and social …

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged nearly every aspect of life and superseded issues
at the core of populist radical right (PRR) parties' ideology, dispossessing them of one of …

How do political parties respond to street protest by political outsiders widely considered to
be 'pariahs'(ie radical or extremist actors)? Bridging the literature on responses to …

The Covid-19 pandemic triggered polarisation across Europe. While most citizens supported
governments' containment measures, others took to the streets and voiced their …

ABSTRACT In this Special Issue, we show that the study of civil society, social movements,
and protest is central for assessing the current state of German politics. First, moving beyond …

Sie gehen für? die Freiheit? auf die Strasse: Bei den Querdenken-Demonstrationen und
Corona-Protesten laufen Impfgegner: innen neben QAnon-Anhänger: innen, Esoteriker …

Protests against coronavirus policies have occurred in all European countries. The intensity
of protest varies strongly, however. We explain this variation by strategic choices that protest …

This article contributes to cultural approaches to populism, focusing on the uses of memory
in far-right protest politics. Conceptually, it develops a novel approach to memory politics …