Since Wiktorowicz’s landmark article in 2006, students of Salafism have been critical users of his tripartite typology ('purists', 'politicos', and 'Jihadis'). Most efforts have been directed towar...

This essay proposes Hindu Orientalism as a central category of analysis across disciplines. It begins by demonstrating how the claim to decolonize India is in fact (re/neo)colonial in many ways as ...

This paper examines the writings of George Brown, a leading expansionist and liberal thinker in the British settler state of Canada. Studying George Brown’s thinking as a non-canonical colonial sta...

In this article we explore the economic thinking of the American populist right and the reservoir of ideological tropes that it draws on. We start with Steve Bannon and show how he narrates a binar...

While most studies of contemporary populism see it as a reaction to economic and cultural change that appeals to solidarities based on nation, race, or class, this essay argues that the American po...

In this article, we study two Facebook groups in Sweden that address environmental issues, which adopt opposingly radical positions as it regards sustainability: one Facebook group supports climate...

This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on the Lega (Nord) by examining the resemiotisation of the party’s early discourse of ‘performative anti-fascism’ under Umberto Bossi into...

The inclusion-moderation thesis suggests that populist parties will be ‘tamed’ by governing, as they must compromise to participate in coalitions. Consequently, they are expected to be more moderat...

Identity politics based on an interpretation of society as a system of power and privilege are increasingly influential within left-wing parties and movements. We used two cross-sectional samples c...

This article examines the life, work, and influence of right-wing artist, writer, and orator Jonathan Bowden. During his life, Bowden was an obscure figure, holding a token position in the British ...

This article applies a morphological analytical framework to cosmopolitanism, an ideological tradition committed to universal moral equality and global forms of community. While this concept of glo...

Radical nationalism is a political ideology centred on tying an imagined people to a bordered territory. It grows from nationalism’s root system into a diversity of political manifestations aimed a...

In this paper, we explore the contribution that political theology can make to the study of political ideologies. In foregrounding the interaction between theological and political ways of thinking...

Ethnopluralism has gained great significance as a political ideology with the rise of right-wing populism in Europe in recent years. It is now the dominant ideology of most radical-right parties an...

The concept of empty signifier is possibly the most prominent among those developed by Ernesto Laclau. However, despite its success among discourse theorists, this notion remains puzzling. It has b...

Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Volume 30, Issue 1 of Journal of Political Ideologies

This paper develops a new method of examining ideology in mass populations. It presents results from an in-depth survey of 252 people examining their ideology, which is understood, following the ac...

Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Mobilizing Laclau’s earlier conceptualization of populism as the politicization of class struggle and its overlap with Poulantzas’ relational theory of the capitalist state, this paper proposes to ...

Publishes research on the theoretical and conceptual aspects of political ideology, and on the nature and roles of particular ideological practices.