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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 12h

🎙️ ECPS Podcasts | Populism Talks ⁉️ How is populism reshaping politics, media, democracy & society across the world? 🎧 Explore our growing archive, with new episodes added frequently. ▶️ Listen now: 🎵 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0R2Hw3u... 🍎 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/p...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📹 ECPS Panel | VIDEO 📌 Demography as a Political Battleground: Migration, Family, Race & Radical-Right ▶️ Explore how demographic change is transformed into political narratives of survival, replacement, belonging. 🎥 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdk... 📚 Read report: 🔗 doi.org/10.55271/rp001

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📹 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇺🇸 Assoc. Prof. Nick Beauchamp: Democratic Socialism Could Have a MAGA-Sized Effect Without Winning Majority Support Nationally ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LK... 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-b...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📹 ECPS Interview | Brazil’s 2026 Election / VIDEO 🇧🇷 Dr. Mara Nogueira: Trump’s Influence Is Shaping Brazil’s Election, Making It a Very Important and Dangerous One ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8J4... 📚 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-nogueira-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📹 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇧🇦 Dr. Semir Dzebo: Dayton Accomplished Peace in Bosnia, but It Has Not Been Great at Democracy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf_9... 📚 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-dzebo-day...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📢 ECPS Panel Report 🫂 Demographic Populism: Demography as a Political Battleground ⁉️ How are migration, fertility, abortion, gender, religion, race, and family drawn together within radical-right narratives about survival, cultural continuity & the future of “the people”?🔗 doi.org/10.55271/rp0...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📢 ECPS Commentary 📌 The Nine Ps of Digital Populism as a Chameleonic Political Marketing Strategy ✍️ By Dr. Ana Filipa Joaquim 📕 Read the commentary: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-nine-ps-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇧🇦 Professor Damir Kapidžić: Bosnia Faces Not Only Illiberal Normalization but the Slow Death of Its Institutions ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch the full video: 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B89... 📕 Read the full text: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-kapidzi...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇧🇦 Dr. Semir Dzebo: Dayton Accomplished Peace in Bosnia, but It Has Not Been Great at Democracy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📚 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-dzebo-day...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview | Brazil’s 2026 Election 🇧🇷 Dr. Mara Nogueira: Trump’s Influence Is Shaping Brazil’s Election, Making It a Very Important and Dangerous One ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📚 Read full text: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-nogueira-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇺🇸 Professor Michael Kazin: The Democratic Party Will Not Become a Socialist Party Anytime Soon ✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli ⚡ Professor Kazin stresses that democratic socialists can exert significant influence over Democratic priorities. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-kazin-t...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 ECPS Voice of Youth (VoY) Interview Series 👨‍🎓 Dr. Amedeo Varriale: Academics Should Engage Public Debate Without Turning Scholarship into Political Activism ✍️ Interview by Natalia Crane 📚 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-varriale-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇺🇸 Associate Professor Nick Beauchamp: Democratic Socialism Could Have a MAGA-Sized Effect Without Winning Majority Support Nationally ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read full text: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-b...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇧🇦 Prof. Kapidžić: Bosnia Faces Not Only Illiberal Normalization but the Slow Death of Its Institutions 🔄 Kapidžić offers a sobering diagnosis: Bosnia remains “stuck in the past”, with progress occurring “either very slowly or not at all.” www.populismstudies.org/prof-kapidzi...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🇩🇪 Prof. Wolfgang Merkel on the Rise of the AfD: Trying to Outflank the Far Right Is Not a Winning Strategy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmih... 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-merkel-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🇸🇪 Dr. Sofie Blombäck: The Debate Over Sweden’s Newest Citizens Has Become Quite Ugly ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlll... 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-blomback-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇩🇪 Professor Wolfgang Merkel on the Rise of the AfD: Trying to Outflank the Far Right Is Not a Winning Strategy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-merkel-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Dr. Sofie Blombäck: The Debate Over Sweden’s Newest Citizens Has Become Quite Ugly ✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli 🌍 Read this conversation on normalization, representation, migration, legitimacy & the changing structure of Swedish politics. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-blomback-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📢 ECPS Voice of Youth (VoY) | Interview Series 🇷🇴 Andrei Gheorghe: Populism May Define the 21st Century, Yet Romania Remains an Understudied Case ✍️ Interview by Natalia Crane 🌍 ECRN member Gheorghe discusses his research on populism in Romania & Hungary. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/andrei-gheor...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📢 ECPS Commentary 🇹🇷 From 'My Family Is Safe' to Gendered Authoritarianism 🌈 Using the LGBTQ crackdown in Turkey as a focal point, Dr. Hafza Girdap explores how family & sexuality are mobilized to distinguish “legitimate citizens” from threatening “Others." www.populismstudies.org/from-my-fami...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🇸🇪 Assoc. Prof. Karl Loxbo: Sweden Has Become an Extreme Case of Radical-Right Mainstreaming ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBg... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-l...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 📌 Assoc. Prof. Karl Loxbo: Sweden Has Become an Extreme Case of Radical-Right Mainstreaming ✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli 🚨 Loxbo argues that the Sweden Democrats’ electoral decline should not be mistaken for a decline in political influence. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-l...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Associate Professor Ov Cristian Norocel: Swedish Mainstream Parties Have Radicalized Rather Than SD Moderating on Immigration ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-n... #ECPS #Sweden #SwedishPolitics #SD #Populism #FarRight

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

📢 ECPS Commentary 🇸🇪 The Pendulum Swings Back: Why the Sweden Democrats Lost Ground in Sweden’s 2026 Election 🔎 Assoc. Prof. Anders Hellström examines why the SD emerged as the principal loser of the 2026 election after years of sustained electoral growth. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-pendulum...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇸🇪 Dr. Gefjon Off: The Sweden Democrats Lost Votes, but Their Influence Remains Clear ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2vk... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-gefjon-of...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Dr. Gefjon Off: The Sweden Democrats Lost Votes, but Their Influence Remains Clear ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📌 Dr. Off analyzes the SD’s electoral setback in 2026 election against the backdrop of their political influence. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-gefjon-of...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇵🇱 Professor Adam Bodnar: Democracies Must Strengthen Civil Society Before Illiberalism Returns ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=meVe... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-bodnar-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📚 ECPS Book Review 📌 Hegemony Without a Strategist? Agency, Identity Grammars and the Identitarian Left in Lars Erik L. Gjerde’s Hegemony and Woke Strategy ✍️ Reviewed by Dr. João Ferreira Dias 📕 Read the book review: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/hegemony-wit...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇵🇱 Professor Adam Bodnar: Democracies Must Strengthen Civil Society Before Illiberalism Returns 📌 Prof. Bodnar—Poland’s former Minister of Justice—reflects on the difficult transition from democratic backsliding to rule-of-law recovery. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-bodnar-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🇩🇪 Dr. Sophie Suda: The Answer to the AfD Is Not Ending the Firewall or Copying Its Agenda, but Delivering for Voters ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🎥🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6FK... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-suda-the-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 Dr. Sophie Suda: The Answer to the AfD Is Not Ending the Firewall or Copying Its Agenda, but Delivering for Voters ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-suda-the-... #ECPS #AfD #Germany #GermanPolitics #Populism #RadicalRight #Brandmauer

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 📽️ 🇸🇪 Assoc. Prof. Anders Hellström: Many Swedes Feel That Rejudification Has Gone Too Far ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 📽️🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW3u... 📕 Read here: populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-h...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Prof. Anders Hellström: Many Swedes Feel That Rejudification Has Gone Too Far ⚡️Read the interview on how the SD has moved from stigmatized outsider to established political force & what this transformation means for Swedish democracy. 📕🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-h...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📢 ECPS Panel 🧭 Demographic Populism: Demography as a Political Battleground — Migration, Family, Race, Religion & Radical-Right Populism 📅 Wed., Sept. 30, 2026 🕓 16:15–18:30 CET 📝 Registration link: 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ⚡️ For more info: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ecps-panel-o...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📹 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇸🇪 🎙️ Professor Niklas Bolin: The Sweden Democrats Have Normalized Without Becoming Less Populist ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ-w... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-bolin-t...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📹 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🇸🇪 🎙️ Professor Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors: If Sweden Democrats Enter Government, Swedish Politics Will Enter a New Phase ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCj_... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-onnerfo...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Professor Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors: If Sweden Democrats Enter Government, Swedish Politics Will Enter a New Phase ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-onnerfo...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📢 ECPS Commentary 🇩🇪 How to Explain the AfD’s Victory in Eastern Germany ✍️ Dr. João Ferreira Dias 📌 Read the article which examines why the AfD has become such a powerful political force in Eastern Germany and why poverty alone cannot explain its rise. 📕🔗 www.populismstudies.org/how-to-expla...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

📢 ECPS Publication Alert! 🚨 📚 Journal of Populism Studies 🆕 Toward a Three-Dimensional Understanding of Populism: Discourse, Ideology & Democratic Mediation ✍️ By Dr. Rafael Marchesan Tauil 📖 A valuable contribution to debates on how populism can be conceptualized. 🔗 doi.org/10.55271/JPS...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🌍 Imran Bayoumi: The Decline of Multilateralism Rewards Both Populism & Authoritarian Powers ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8L... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/imran-bayoum...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 📌 Dr. María José Urzúa Valverde: Autocracies See Independent Civic Space Itself as a Strategic Threat ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRHL... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-valverde-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 🌍 Imran Bayoumi: The Decline of Multilateralism Rewards Both Populism & Authoritarian Powers ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 👉Bayoumi examines how geopolitical fragmentation & weakening multilateral institutions are reshaping global power. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/imran-bayoum...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📢 ECPS Interview 📌 Dr. Valverde: Autocracies See Independent Civic Space Itself as a Strategic Threat ✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli ⁉️ How do authoritarianism, populism, democratic backsliding, & transnational advocacy intersect in today’s contested int'l order? 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/dr-valverde-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🎥 WATCH ECPS Interview 📌 Prof. Mazzoleni & Dr. Koxha: Demographic Populism Links Cultural Survival to Biological Reproduction ✍️Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 👥 Who is entitled to reproduce the “true people”? ▶️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTn... 📕 Read : www.populismstudies.org/prof-mazzole...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📢 ECPS European Observatory 🇪🇸 Ceuta Could Be the Last Frontier of the Liberal-Multicultural Age ✍️ By Dr. João Ferreira Dias ⁉️ What does the migration crisis in Ceuta tell us about the future of Europe’s liberal-multicultural order? 📕 Read the commentary: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/ceuta-could-...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📢 ECPS Commentary 🇸🇪 “Making Sweden Sweden Again”—or Undoing the Sweden You Know? ✍️By Bulent Kenes ⁉️ What does it mean to “make Sweden Sweden again”—and which Sweden is being invoked? 📕 Read the commentary: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/making-swede...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📢 ECPS Voice of Youth (VoY) 🤖🌍 The Hidden Cost of AI: Our Climate, Our Children, Our Future ✍️ By Emaan Zahra 📌 Zahra examines an overlooked dimension of the AI: its consequences for both environmental sustainability & the development of younger gen's. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/the-hidden-c...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📢 ECPS Publication Alert! 📚 Journal of Populism Studies (JPS) 🌍 Mandate Inflation: How Populists Claim Authority to Challenge Global Constraints ✍️By Muhammad Faizan Aslam 📕 Read the full article: 🔗 jps.populismstudies.org/articles/man...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📢 ECPS Voice of Youth 🕯️ August 25: From Remembrance to Responsibility for the Rohingya ✍️ By PS Ayaas 🕊️ “Remembrance is the beginning of responsibility. And responsibility means building a future in which no child has to learn belonging can be taken away.” 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/august-25-fr...

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📢 ECPS Interview | VIDEO 🎥 🌍 Prof. Justin Gest: The Way Countries Treat Their Most Vulnerable Is Indicative of the State of Their Democracy ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎥 Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znb3... 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-gest-th...

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