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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS)

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ECPS is an independent, nonprofit organization for research on and analysis of challenges posed by increasing political populism. ECPS observes and reports on different manifestations of populism across the world. www.populismstudies.org

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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 8h
🎙️ 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
🎥 WATCH | ECPS Interview 🇺🇸 Professor Michael Kazin: The Democratic Party Will Not Become a Socialist Party Anytime Soon ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch the full video: 🎥🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=143U... 📕 Read the interview: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-kazin-t...
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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 · 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 🇺🇸 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 · 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 Commentary 🌍⚡ Green Colonialism or Green Sovereignty? Africa’s Critical Minerals and the Politics of the Energy Transition ✍️ By Dr. Oludele Mayowa Solaja 📕 Read here: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/green-coloni... #ECPS #Africa #CriticalMinerals #GreenTransition #GreenColonialism
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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 · 13/09/2026
📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 🇺🇸 Professor Lane Kenworthy: Trumpism Could Disappear If a More Appealing Agenda Comes Along ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli ▶️ Watch now: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNsh... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-kenwort...
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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
📢 ECPS Interview 🇺🇸 Prof. Lane Kenworthy: Trumpism Could Disappear If a More Appealing Agenda Comes Along ✍️ By Selcuk Gultasli ⚡️ Read the interview on Trumpism, MAGA, plutocracy, inequality, democratic socialism & the future of American political economy. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-kenwort...
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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 Panel 🧭 Demographic Populism: Demography as a Political Battleground — Migration, Family, Race, Religion, and Radical-Right Populism 📅 Wednesday, September 30, 2026 🕓 16:15–18:30 CET 📝 Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... ⚡️For more information: populismstudies.org/ecps-panel-o...
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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 · 10/09/2026
📢 ECPS Commentary 🌍 From Mobility Inequality to Populist Grievance: Passport Privilege, Travel Influencers, and the Politics of the Digital Tourist Gaze ✍️ By Zeynep Temel 📕 Read the commentary: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/from-mobilit...
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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 / 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 🇸🇪 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 🇹🇷 Stealing from the Future: Erdogan’s Medium-Term Program and Economic Populism for Electoral Survival ✍️ By Professor Ibrahim Ozturk 📕 Read the commentary: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/stealing-fro...
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European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS) @populismstudies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📢 ECPS Interview 🇸🇪 Prof. Bolin: The Sweden Democrats Have Normalized Without Becoming Less Populist 📌 With Sweden heading toward the Sept. 13 parliamentary election, Prof. Bolin examines how the SD has moved from isolation to the center of Swedish politics. www.populismstudies.org/prof-bolin-t...
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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 · 07/09/2026
📢 ECPS Interview / VIDEO 🎥 📌🇺🇸 Professor Howard Lavine: Democrats Are Making Themselves Vulnerable by Using the Socialist Label ✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli 🎬 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=110G... 📕 Read here: 🔗 populismstudies.org/prof-lavine-...
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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 📌🇺🇸 Prof. Howard Lavine: Democrats Are Making Themselves Vulnerable by Using the Socialist Label ⁉️ How can Democrats rebuild political energy in an era shaped by Trumpism, MAGA, partisan polarization & growing economic insecurity? 📕 Read: 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-lavine-...
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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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