Interviews

Professor Friedman: We Need to Recognize That the Older Democratic Model Is Being Rejected

July 15, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Robert Huber: Populist Narratives on Sustainability, Energy Resources and Climate Change

July 16, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky: Climate Change, Populism, and Disinformation

July 16, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Philippe Le Billon: Climate Change, Natural Resources and Conflicts

July 16, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Eric Swyngedouw: The Climate Deadlock and The Unbearable Lightness of Climate Populism

July 16, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Dr. Heidi Hart: Art Attacks – Museum Vandalism as a Populist Response to Climate Trauma?

July 15, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 –Prof. Daniel Fiorino: Ideology Meets Interest Group Politics – The Trump Administration and Climate Mitigation

July 15, 2025
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Sandra Ricart: Climate Change, Food, Farmers, and Populism

July 16, 2025

Interviews

Demonstrators at The People’s March, an evolution of the Women’s March, NYC, January 18, 2025. A protester holds a sign reading “Presidents Are Not Kings.” Photo: Erin Alexis Randolph.
Interviews

Professor Friedman: We Need to Recognize That the Older Democratic Model Is Being Rejected

July 15, 2025
Professor Dominika Kasprowicz, a leading scholar of political communication at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University.
Interviews

Professor Kasprowicz: Despite Polarization and Populist Gains, Poland’s Democratic Potential Remains Intact

July 9, 2025
Professor Arend Lijphart, one of the most influential political scientists of the past and present century and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.
Interviews

Professor Arend Lijphart: Presidentialism Creates a Greater Risk of Democratic Collapse

July 8, 2025
Professor Baskın Oran, a veteran and venerated Turkish political scientist.
Interviews

Professor Oran on Turkey’s Erdogan Regime: “Let’s Just Call It a ‘Democratic Administration’—So That No Harm Comes to Anyone”

July 8, 2025
Dr. Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus at Princeton University, and former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
Interviews

Professor Richard Falk: The US Is Experiencing a ‘Weimar Moment’

June 30, 2025
Professor Larry Diamond, a renowned expert on democratic development and Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Interviews

Professor Diamond: Fascism Isn’t Back—But Its Features Are

June 27, 2025
Professor Rafal Soborski, who teaches International Politics at Richmond American University and serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Metropolitan University.
Interviews

Prof. Soborski: The Recent Polish Election Shows That Shifting Right Doesn’t Win Over the Right

June 20, 2025
Billboard reading “The Looting Government,” part of a protest campaign against the conservative coalition's policies in Ra'anana, Israel, May 2023. Photo: Rene Van Den Berg
Interviews

Professor Ben-Porat: Israel’s Rightward Shift Is More Than Political Strategy

June 5, 2025
Dr. Radoslaw Markowski is Professor of Political Science, Center for the Study of Democracy, Director, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw & Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish National Election Study, Principal Investigator.
Interviews

Professor Markowski on Poland’s President-Elect Karol Nawrocki: Future Statesman or Mere Footnote?

June 5, 2025
George Simion
Interviews

Dr. Bortun: Economic Insecurity Fuels the Rise of the Far Right in Romania

May 27, 2025

Commentaries

A distressed Black woman professional faces gender discrimination and workplace bullying, as male colleagues point fingers and place blame. The image highlights the emotional toll of inequality and harassment in professional environments. Photo: Dreamstime.
Commentaries

“No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent”: Is Eleanor Roosevelt Right?

June 18, 2025
Colorful election posters featuring presidential candidate Leni Robredo during the Philippine General Elections 2022, seen in Manila on April 16, 2022. Photo: Jim Kayalar.
Commentaries

The ‘Pink Movement,’ Youth Vote, and the Future of Philippine Politics

June 3, 2025
Marine Le Pen
Commentaries

From Fraud to Framing: Marine Le Pen’s Trial and ‘Alternative Truth’

May 8, 2025
Protests in Turkey.
Commentaries

The Erdogan Regime and Its Future Amid Mass Protests: Prospects for Change?

April 24, 2025
Faded USA vs Germany vs Japan national flags icon isolated on broken weathered cracked wall background, abstract US Germany Japan politics relationship divided conflicts concept texture wallpaper.
Commentaries

The Future Course of German and Japanese Capitalism in a Multipolar World under Trump 2.0

March 21, 2025
Photo: Shutterstock AI.
Commentaries

Trump and The New Capitalism: Old Wine in New Bottle

March 4, 2025
3D illustration: Lightspring.
Commentaries

The Economic Meaning and Consequences of Trump’s Trade Tariff Wars

March 4, 2025
Hundreds of migrants attempt to cross the US-Mexico border as the Texas National Guard works to prevent irregular crossings in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico on March 21, 2024. Photo: David Peinado Romero.
Commentaries

The “Awkward Alliance” of the Left and the Right

March 4, 2025
Photo: Shutterstock.
Commentaries

Gouveia e Melo and the Military Messianic Zeitgeist in Portugal

March 4, 2025
Social Media
Commentaries

How Identity Shapes Perception in a Polarized World: Insights from an Online Survey Experiment with AI-Enhanced Media

March 4, 2025

Articles

Robert Huber is Professor of Political Science Methods at the University of Salzburg.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Robert Huber: Populist Narratives on Sustainability, Energy Resources and Climate Change

July 16, 2025
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, a globally renowned cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Bristol.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky: Climate Change, Populism, and Disinformation

July 16, 2025
Protest against the IMARC conference in Melbourne, Australia, October 28, 2019. Extinction Rebellion and other groups march in Southbank to oppose the mining and resource industry event. Photo: Adam Calaitzis.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Philippe Le Billon: Climate Change, Natural Resources and Conflicts

July 16, 2025
Professor Erik Swyngedouw, a globally respected scholar in the fields of political ecology and critical social theory. He is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Eric Swyngedouw: The Climate Deadlock and The Unbearable Lightness of Climate Populism

July 16, 2025
Carnival float showing Greta Thunberg holding the older generation by their ears, symbolizing "Fridays for Future" in Düsseldorf, Germany on March 3, 2019. Photo: Christian Drees.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Dr. Heidi Hart: Art Attacks – Museum Vandalism as a Populist Response to Climate Trauma?

July 15, 2025
Protesters demonstrate on Earth Day against President Trump’s environmental policies in Ventura, California, on April 29, 2017. Photo: Joe Sohm.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 –Prof. Daniel Fiorino: Ideology Meets Interest Group Politics – The Trump Administration and Climate Mitigation

July 15, 2025
Farmers and truckers protest against subsidy cuts at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on January 14, 2024. Photo: Shutterstock.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Sandra Ricart: Climate Change, Food, Farmers, and Populism

July 16, 2025
Dr. John M. Meyer, Professor in the Departments of Politics and Environmental Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. John Meyer: Climate Justice and Populism

July 15, 2025
Scholars and thought leaders reflect on repairing democratic trust at Roundtable III of the ECPS Conference 2025, titled “When the Social Contract Is Broken: How to Put the Genie Back.” Featuring Aviezer Tucker, Baron John Alderdice, and Julian F. Müller, co-chaired by Irina von Wiese and Selçuk Gültaşlı at St Cross College, Oxford.
Reports

ECPS Conference 2025 / Roundtable III — When the Social Contract is Broken: How to Put the Genie Back

July 9, 2025
Scholars unpack the shifting dynamics between “the people” and “the elite” in a global context during Panel VIII of the ECPS Conference 2025. Featuring papers on populist elites, authoritarian networks, and civil society resistance, the panel was co-chaired by Ashley Wright and Azize Sargın.
Reports

ECPS Conference 2025 / Panel 8 — ‘The People’ vs ‘The Elite’: A New Global Order?

July 9, 2025

Profiles

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
Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: Mustafa Kirazli
Leaders

Erdogan’s Political Journey: From Victimised Muslim Democrat to Authoritarian, Islamist Populist

March 16, 2025

Editor's Choice

Demonstrators at The People’s March, an evolution of the Women’s March, NYC, January 18, 2025. A protester holds a sign reading “Presidents Are Not Kings.” Photo: Erin Alexis Randolph.
Interviews

Professor Friedman: We Need to Recognize That the Older Democratic Model Is Being Rejected

July 15, 2025
Robert Huber is Professor of Political Science Methods at the University of Salzburg.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Robert Huber: Populist Narratives on Sustainability, Energy Resources and Climate Change

July 16, 2025
Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, a globally renowned cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at the University of Bristol.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky: Climate Change, Populism, and Disinformation

July 16, 2025
Protest against the IMARC conference in Melbourne, Australia, October 28, 2019. Extinction Rebellion and other groups march in Southbank to oppose the mining and resource industry event. Photo: Adam Calaitzis.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Philippe Le Billon: Climate Change, Natural Resources and Conflicts

July 16, 2025
Professor Erik Swyngedouw, a globally respected scholar in the fields of political ecology and critical social theory. He is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Eric Swyngedouw: The Climate Deadlock and The Unbearable Lightness of Climate Populism

July 16, 2025
Carnival float showing Greta Thunberg holding the older generation by their ears, symbolizing "Fridays for Future" in Düsseldorf, Germany on March 3, 2019. Photo: Christian Drees.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Dr. Heidi Hart: Art Attacks – Museum Vandalism as a Populist Response to Climate Trauma?

July 15, 2025
Protesters demonstrate on Earth Day against President Trump’s environmental policies in Ventura, California, on April 29, 2017. Photo: Joe Sohm.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 –Prof. Daniel Fiorino: Ideology Meets Interest Group Politics – The Trump Administration and Climate Mitigation

July 15, 2025
Farmers and truckers protest against subsidy cuts at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on January 14, 2024. Photo: Shutterstock.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. Sandra Ricart: Climate Change, Food, Farmers, and Populism

July 16, 2025
Dr. John M. Meyer, Professor in the Departments of Politics and Environmental Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.
Reports

ECPS Academy Summer School 2025 – Prof. John Meyer: Climate Justice and Populism

July 15, 2025
Scholars and thought leaders reflect on repairing democratic trust at Roundtable III of the ECPS Conference 2025, titled “When the Social Contract Is Broken: How to Put the Genie Back.” Featuring Aviezer Tucker, Baron John Alderdice, and Julian F. Müller, co-chaired by Irina von Wiese and Selçuk Gültaşlı at St Cross College, Oxford.
Reports

ECPS Conference 2025 / Roundtable III — When the Social Contract is Broken: How to Put the Genie Back

July 9, 2025

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