Benjamin De Cleen (VUB), Jason Glynos (Essex) and Aurelien Mondon (Bath): Critical Research on Populism: Nine Rules of Engagement. Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser): Understanding Populism, Left and Right. Filipe Carreira da Silva (Lisbon) and Monica Brito Vieira (York): Populism as a Logic of Political Action. Pierre Ostiguy (UC): Populism: A Socio-Cultural Approach. Ingolfur Bluhdorn and Felix Butzlaff (WU): Rethinking Populism: Peak Democracy, Liquid Identity and the Performance of Sovereignty. Albena Azmanova (Kent): The Populist Catharsis: On the Revival of the Political. Jean Cohen (Columbia): Populism and the Politics of Resentment. Andrew Arato (New School): Populism, the Courts and Civil Society.
Anton Jager (Cambridge): The Semantic Drift: Images of Populism in Post-war American Historiography and Their Relevance for (European) Political Science. Seren Selvin Korkmaz and Alphan Telek on the origins of populism: Bogus-democracy and capitalism. Populists have one big thing right: Democracies are becoming less open. Peter Csigo on how populists become popular. Daniel Little on populism’s base. Andres Rodriguez-Pose on the revenge of the places that don’t matter. Religion, gender dynamics, place and cultural identity: All inform rising authoritarian populism in rural areas, alongside class interests and inequalities.
Historians have long thought populism was a good thing — are they wrong? Jordan Kyle and Yascha Mounk on why it’s so difficult to kill a populist movement. The populist surge: Francis Fukuyama on how Trumpist populism could easily linger longer than most people readily assume. What does a true populism look like? It looks like the New Deal.
