Interviews

Prof. Klein: It Is Difficult to Label Japanese PM Takaichi a Populist, Despite Her Nationalism and Anti-Feminism

November 20, 2025
Populism & Politics (P&P)

Discursive Violence and Moral Repair: The Promise and Limits of Non-Violent Communication Against Populism

November 19, 2025
Interviews

Professor Kubik: Populism in CEE Is Rooted in Deep Feudal Structures Rather Than in the Communist Past

November 19, 2025
Interviews

Dr. Linker: Trump Is the Worst Possible Example of a Right-wing Populist

November 18, 2025
Voice of Youth

November 17th: The Rise of the Far-Right as a ‘Youth Trend’

November 18, 2025
Interviews

Dr. Vieten: Dutch Progressive Liberalism Is Rather Cosmetic as Fractured Far Right Gains

November 17, 2025
Journal of Populism Studies

‘Patriots to Defend Our Identity from the Islamisation of Europe’: How Populist Leaders Normalise Polarisation, a Multimodal Discourse Analysis

November 16, 2025
Interviews

Dr. Rovelli: Milei’s Anti-Science and Denialist Policies Undermine Argentina’s Scientific Institutions

November 17, 2025

Interviews

Daytime view of Akihabara in Tokyo, known as “Electric Town” for its many electronics shops, duty-free stores, and vibrant youth culture. Photo: Dreamstime.
Interviews

Prof. Klein: It Is Difficult to Label Japanese PM Takaichi a Populist, Despite Her Nationalism and Anti-Feminism

November 20, 2025
Jan Kubik is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University and Professor Emeritus at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (UCL), which he directed in 2015-17.
Interviews

Professor Kubik: Populism in CEE Is Rooted in Deep Feudal Structures Rather Than in the Communist Past

November 19, 2025
Dr. Damon Linker—Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Fellow in the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, columnist, and author of The Theocons and The Religious Test
Interviews

Dr. Linker: Trump Is the Worst Possible Example of a Right-wing Populist

November 18, 2025
Dr. Ulrike M. Vieten is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sociology of Gender, Migration and Racisms at Queen’s University Belfast.
Interviews

Dr. Vieten: Dutch Progressive Liberalism Is Rather Cosmetic as Fractured Far Right Gains

November 17, 2025
Dr. Laura Rovelli is an independent researcher at CONICET and Professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP).
Interviews

Dr. Rovelli: Milei’s Anti-Science and Denialist Policies Undermine Argentina’s Scientific Institutions

November 17, 2025
Election posters near the Binnenhof featuring Geert Wilders of the PVV in the foreground, The Hague, the Netherlands, October 12, 2025. Photo: Dreamstime.
Interviews

Dr. Vossen: The Anti-Islam Core Is the Most Important Part of Wilders’s PVV

November 13, 2025
Dr. Monika de Silva is a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg.
Interviews

Dr. de Silva: Anti-Gender Narratives Are Highly Interlinked and Interconnected Across Borders

November 11, 2025
Satirical carnival parade with caricatured sculptures and enthusiastic spectators in Torres Vedras, Portugal on March 4, 2025. Photo: Dreamstime.
Interviews

Assoc. Prof. Frantz: The Rise of Personalist Leaders Is Fueling Unpredictable Global Conflict

November 11, 2025
Rory Truex is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Interviews

Assoc. Prof. Truex: We Need the GOP to Reclaim Its Role as a Check on Trump

November 9, 2025
Geert Wilders (PVV) in House of Representatives during a debating at the Tweede Kamer on April 5, 2023 in Den Haag, Netherlands. Photo: Jeroen Meuwsen.
Interviews

Professor de Lange: D66’s Victory in Dutch Elections Cannot Be Presented as a Victory over Populism

November 5, 2025

Commentaries

The Athens Polytechnic Monument covered with flowers during the 2019 commemoration of the 1973 student uprising against the Greek junta in Athens, Greece. Photo: Antonios Karvelas.
Voice of Youth

November 17th: The Rise of the Far-Right as a ‘Youth Trend’

November 18, 2025
Labor Day protest outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, September 1, 2025, where demonstrators demanded better wages and working conditions. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

Can Mamdani’s Municipal Socialism Counter Democratic Backsliding?

November 11, 2025
Brick Lane—London’s most iconic hub for street art and graffiti—runs from Whitechapel to Shoreditch through the heart of the East End, with nearby streets toward Spitalfields and Bethnal Green offering rich artistic stories of their own. Photo: Nicoleta Raluca Tudor.
Commentaries

Schrödinger’s Elite: How Populism Turns Power into Moral Performance

November 9, 2025
Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

What Is the Ideology That Has Attained Social Hegemony? Let Us Call It Simply “Nativism”

October 30, 2025
Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan addresses a press conference in Islamabad on April 20, 2016. Photo: Jahanzaib Naiyyer.
Commentaries

Popular, Not Populist? Imran Khan and the Civil–Military Grammar of Populism in Pakistan

October 24, 2025
Engineers conducting research at a solar energy R&D center. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

Creative Destruction or Destructive Consolidation? Nobel Reflections on Growth Under Populism

October 20, 2025
Memorial for Charlie Kirk outside Turning Point USA Headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, on September 13, 2025, following his fatal shooting while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

From the Tea Party to MAGA – How White Christian Nationalism Is Taking Control of the US

September 30, 2025
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking and gesturing in the House of Commons, UK Parliament, at Westminster Palace in London, UK, on February 7, 2024. Photo: Tennessee Witney.
Voice of Youth

How Should Mainstream Parties Respond to Populism? The Internal Debates of Britain’s Labour Party under Starmer

September 30, 2025
Banksy protest mural in Palestine. A mural by the artist Banksy on a wall in the West Bank village of Beit Sahour, June 18, 2014. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

Queerness, Genocide, and International Law – A Look at Palestine

September 28, 2025
Activists stage an anti-corruption demonstration in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

People versus Elites, Populist Logics in Indonesia’s 2025 Unrest

September 4, 2025

Articles

A man sits in the dark, staring angrily at his mobile phone. Photo: Raman Mistsechka.
Populism & Politics (P&P)

Discursive Violence and Moral Repair: The Promise and Limits of Non-Violent Communication Against Populism

November 19, 2025
Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, attend a center-right coalition rally in Rome, Italy on March 01, 2018. Photo: Alessia Pierdomenico.
Journal of Populism Studies

‘Patriots to Defend Our Identity from the Islamisation of Europe’: How Populist Leaders Normalise Polarisation, a Multimodal Discourse Analysis

November 16, 2025
Women’s March Demonstration — Protesters take to the streets of Eugene, Oregon, despite the rain. Photo: Catherine Avilez.
Reports

Virtual Workshop Series — Session 6: “Populism and the Crisis of Representation –Reimagining Democracy in Theory and Practice”

November 17, 2025
Photo: Dreamstime.
Reports

Virtual Workshop Series — Session 5: “Constructing the People: Populist Narratives, National Identity, and Democratic Tensions”

November 4, 2025
Photo: Dreamstime.
Reports

Virtual Workshop Series — Session 4: “Performing the People: Populism, Nativism, and the Politics of Belonging”

October 21, 2025
Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim delivering a speech on the eve of September 16, 2008 — the day he intended to take over the Malaysian government. Photo: Chee Sheong Chia.
Journal of Populism Studies

Anwar Ibrahim’s Civilisational Populism: The Gaza War and Malaysia

October 9, 2025
United States Bill of Rights alongside a Bible and bullets. Photo: Cheryl Casey.
Reports

Virtual Workshop Series — Session 3: Populism, Freedom of Religion and Illiberal Regimes

October 5, 2025
Photo: Dreamstime.
Reports

From Populism to Fascism? Intellectual Responsibilities in Times of Democratic Backsliding

September 30, 2025
Students and academics join a protest march in Haifa on September 9, 2023, against Israel’s controversial judicial overhaul. Photo: Dreamstime.
Journal of Populism Studies

Authoritarianism Curbed? Populism, Democracy and War in Israel

September 24, 2025
The Zhihu logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Photo: Rafael Henrique.
Journal of Populism Studies

Diversity, Rationality, and the Diffusion of Online Populism: A Study of Chinese Social Media Discussions

September 21, 2025

Profiles

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party and candidate for prime minister, during an electoral rally in Turin, Italy, September 2022. Photo: Mike Dot.
Profiles

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FdI): Conservative, Populist, or Extreme Right? 

July 27, 2025
Prabowo Subianto sings during a grand campaign at GBK Stadium in Jakarta on March 23, 2014. After four attempts, Prabowo was finally elected President of Indonesia in 2024. Photo: MRNPic.
Leaders

From Political Pariah to President: Prabowo Subianto and the Perils of Populism in Indonesia

March 4, 2025
Richard Spencer, Nathan Damigo, Tim Gionet & entourage arrives during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA that turned violent resulting in one death and multiple injuries on August 12, 2017. Photo: Kim Kelley-Wagner
Profiles

Richard B. Spencer: The founder of alt-right presents racism in a chic new outfit

March 16, 2025
Photo: casapounditalia.org
Profiles

CasaPound Italy: The Sui Generis Fascists of the New Millennium

March 16, 2025
Caricature of The Five Star Movement in carnival parade of floats and masks, made of paper-pulp in Viareggio, Tuscany, Italy in January 2018.
Profiles

Institutionalized Populism: The “Strange Case” of the Italian Five Star Movement

March 16, 2025
Parade Tauhid or Parade of Tawheed, muslim marched from central stadium to the central city of Jakarta and back. Muhammad Riziq Shihab was giving oration in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 17 2015. Photo: Riana Ambarsari
Profiles

Populism, Violence, and Vigilantism in Indonesia: Rizieq Shihab and His Far-Right Islamist Populism

March 16, 2025
NMR6
Profiles

NMR: A Nordic neo-Nazi organization with aims of establishing totalitarian rule across Scandinavia

March 16, 2025
QAnon Shaman, Jake Angeli is seen as roaming near the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021 insurrection which was initiated by Former US President Donald Trump in Washington D.C.. Photo: Johnny Silvercloud
Profiles

QAnon: A Conspiracy Cult or Quasi-Religion of Modern Times?

March 16, 2025
Armed protesters, including Boogaloo Boys, on the lawn of the Michigan capitol, denying the results of the recent election before the inauguration of Joe Biden in Lansing, Michigan, US on January 17, 2021. Photo: Lester Graham
Profiles

Boogaloo Bois: Violent Anti-Establishment Extremists in Festive Hawaiian Shirts

March 16, 2025
Jair Bolsonaro during participation in the Unica Forum 2018 in Sao Paulo, Brazil in June 18, 2018. Photo: Marcelo Chello
Leaders

Jair Bolsonaro: Far-Right Firebrand and Cheerleader for Dictatorship

March 16, 2025

Editor's Choice

Daytime view of Akihabara in Tokyo, known as “Electric Town” for its many electronics shops, duty-free stores, and vibrant youth culture. Photo: Dreamstime.
Interviews

Prof. Klein: It Is Difficult to Label Japanese PM Takaichi a Populist, Despite Her Nationalism and Anti-Feminism

November 20, 2025
A man sits in the dark, staring angrily at his mobile phone. Photo: Raman Mistsechka.
Populism & Politics (P&P)

Discursive Violence and Moral Repair: The Promise and Limits of Non-Violent Communication Against Populism

November 19, 2025
Jan Kubik is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University and Professor Emeritus at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (UCL), which he directed in 2015-17.
Interviews

Professor Kubik: Populism in CEE Is Rooted in Deep Feudal Structures Rather Than in the Communist Past

November 19, 2025
Dr. Damon Linker—Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Fellow in the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, columnist, and author of The Theocons and The Religious Test
Interviews

Dr. Linker: Trump Is the Worst Possible Example of a Right-wing Populist

November 18, 2025
Dr. Ulrike M. Vieten is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sociology of Gender, Migration and Racisms at Queen’s University Belfast.
Interviews

Dr. Vieten: Dutch Progressive Liberalism Is Rather Cosmetic as Fractured Far Right Gains

November 17, 2025
Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, attend a center-right coalition rally in Rome, Italy on March 01, 2018. Photo: Alessia Pierdomenico.
Journal of Populism Studies

‘Patriots to Defend Our Identity from the Islamisation of Europe’: How Populist Leaders Normalise Polarisation, a Multimodal Discourse Analysis

November 16, 2025
Dr. Laura Rovelli is an independent researcher at CONICET and Professor at the National University of La Plata (UNLP).
Interviews

Dr. Rovelli: Milei’s Anti-Science and Denialist Policies Undermine Argentina’s Scientific Institutions

November 17, 2025
Women’s March Demonstration — Protesters take to the streets of Eugene, Oregon, despite the rain. Photo: Catherine Avilez.
Reports

Virtual Workshop Series — Session 6: “Populism and the Crisis of Representation –Reimagining Democracy in Theory and Practice”

November 17, 2025
Election posters near the Binnenhof featuring Geert Wilders of the PVV in the foreground, The Hague, the Netherlands, October 12, 2025. Photo: Dreamstime.
Interviews

Dr. Vossen: The Anti-Islam Core Is the Most Important Part of Wilders’s PVV

November 13, 2025
Labor Day protest outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, September 1, 2025, where demonstrators demanded better wages and working conditions. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

Can Mamdani’s Municipal Socialism Counter Democratic Backsliding?

November 11, 2025

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