Since the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, an intense debate has
developed around the connection between social media and populist movements. In this …

This article engages in a comparative analysis of populist parties across the West‐European
left‐right spectrum. Conceptualizing populism as a 'thin ideology', we argue that populist …

This chapter interrogates a number of taken-for-granted assumptions about the relationship
between populism and social media, and sets out four 'traps' for studying this relationship …

The contributions to this volume Migration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically
grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are …

While economic issues are increasingly salient in political mobilization by European radical
right-wing populist parties, we are still in need of a definition of these parties' economic …

This chapter examines the supply and demand sides of populism in France. It looks at the
two main populist actors, ie, the Front National (FN) and La France Insoumise (LFI). The FN …

This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5
Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019) …

This article empirically explores how populist actors talk about the nation. This is a research
area mostly tackled in studies on right‐wing populism, with other forms of populist politics …

The ascent of populism has been linked with economic and cultural disruptions of
modernization. From this perspective, it could be implied that factors such as psychological …

A challenge for the identification of the core components of a beliefs system is the
topological examination of these components within the overall structure of the said system …