There is a growing consensus in party politics that new fault lines are emerging, and scholars increasingly characterise competition as multidimensional. In a multidimensional space, parties can ad...

Vicente Valentim on the role of social norms in shaping voter behavior and the impact of their erosion in the context of the rise of radical right parties

Fidesz constructed a very elaborate system of checks and balances that never checked Viktor Orban’s executive power, but is now ready to snap into action, warns Michael Meyer-Resende. For example, the...

Jan-Werner Mueller considers how the Hungarian opposition, if it wins the upcoming election, could rebuild after illiberal rule.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

Hungary's Counter-Terrorism Center raided a Ukrainian state bank's convoy not to enforce the law, but to manufacture a diplomatic crisis that could be weaponized in Viktor Orbán's re-election campaign...

A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views.

Mattia Zulianello introduces the PopulisTree, a new taxonomy and open-access dataset that maps the full diversity of populist parties across Europe over recent decades. Building upon and expanding the...

So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong

This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde

Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse…

The ‘heterodox intellectual’ turned populist is a morbid symptom of the digital age

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