Populist Mobilization—my first monograph—has now been published by
@OUPPolitics
, available in both ebook and hardback formats. Here, I’d like to share a few insights to help you decide if this book is of interest to you or might be useful for your students [thread]
Career update: after nine great years at
@Yale
, I have decided to move back to the old continent. I am carrying with me many happy memories with colleagues, students, and friends that I met along the way. Who knows, one day we may reunite! (1/3)
Kurt Weyland is an important scholar of populism and perhaps the main advocate of the ultra-agentic approach (it's all about the populist leader). In a recent paper he offers a list of "all populist governments in Latin America and Europe since 1985".
@Yale
@OUPAcademic
And in September I am joining
@EKKEgr
(National Center for Social Science Research) in Athens as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. I am very excited about my new project, where I will delve into the history of Greek populism going back to the 19th century. Stay tuned! (3/3)
Very insightful chapter by Sophia Hatzisavvidou
@DrSophiaH
on populism and rhetoric, bringing together Laclau, Aristotle, and frame theory to discuss the limits of moralization in populist discourse. The case study is Alexis Tsipras ca. 2015.
New ISPR article just published. My analysis focuses on the non-spatial factors that facilitate the formation of extraordinary ideologically mismatched government coalitions, with the SYRIZA-ANEL governments in Greece (2015-2019) as a case study.
@Yale
My parting shot at Yale, my first monograph titled Populist Mobilization, is coming out by
@OUPAcademic
in a few weeks. The e-book will be online by mid-August; the print version is slated for September 5th. For more information and pre-orders see: (2/3)
The
#Popul4t
seminar arrives to its end. Our closing session is with
@parisaslanidis
from Yale University. Next Friday 4th of November. Join us and follow our YT streaming
🎞️:
#PopulistFrameSeminar
🖼️
The Palgrave Handbook of Populism (ed. Michael Oswald) dropped yesterday. My chapter is tiled "The Red Herring of Economic Populism" and it is not going to make me any new friends among economists.
#populism
Ingeborg Misje Bergem challenges my work on grassroots populist in this new article in
@PolStudies
, using the Yellow Vests as a case study. A bit too structuralist for my taste but definitely interesting.
Bruno Castanho Silva from
@UniCologne
and
@PopulismTeam
will be giving a talk on populist attitudes among citizens, at the Department of Political Science
@Yale
(Room 241, 12:30), sponsored by the European Studies Council
@YaleMacMillan
. Thank you
@b_castanho
!
The funny thing is we'll still keep teaching polisci holding the US as the universal model, with its "rule of law" and its "checks and balances". Nothing will change.
Today we're launching a new series of articles previewing the
#EP2024
elections
@Europarl_EN
In our first article of the series,
@parisaslanidis
previews the vote in Greece
My paper on "Populism as a Collective Action Master Frame for
Transnational Mobilization" was just published by
@Soc_Forum
. A contribution to comparative master frame analysis and the study of populist social movements during the Great Recession
#populism
At a European Students Conference, "populism" mentioned at a rate of ~20/minute by undergrads from all over the world. Is anti-populism the new newspeak?
Old enough to remember when Lula was the "populist" that liberals should steer clear from because "checks and balances" and "monetary policy" and others tales from the crypt
The Hellenic Studies Program at
@YaleMacMillan
will have the honor of hosting Natalie Alkiviadou
@NatalieAlk
for a talk of the Greek far right and international law on October 12, 12pm. Feel free to join us in person or over Zoom. Registration link here:
The government has left this loophole in the Economic Crime Bill, which could allow oligarchs to be excluded from the new register of assets if keeping them anonymous is "in the interests of the economic wellbeing of the United Kingdom."
Compiled for my seminar on the extreme right, I am sharing here my collection of documentaries/short videos (currently numbering 82) on grassroots white extremism: . Feel free to use it for your own courses. Using Dropbox Paper for now but may switch later.
Many thanks to
@DrCherryCanovan
and Margaret Canovan's former colleagues and friends who agreed to be interviewed for this piece. It was very moving to write a chapter on one of my favorite academics of all time, a true 'populist gadfly' whose intellect still shapes our field
Michael Gorup beautifully deconstructs the Rousseauian focus on the leader by Laclau/Mouffe. Those who study populist grassroots movements know that populism needs no leaders to operate. Affect can be established in the absence of "charismatic" leadership
"What’s in a Buzzword? A Systematic Review of the
State of Populism Research in Political Science" -- very interesting ideas in this forthcoming chapter by
@SophiaHunger
and Fred Paxton.
In case you're not already fed up with all the the populism buzz ( and you probably are!), tomorrow I'll be presenting a paper on whether populist social movements have the capacity to transform into political parties
#mpsa
#populism
Now hold on: can scholars in *politics* and *electoral behavior* really assess whether political candidates (whom they have never met) are "narcissists" or "psychopaths"? Even psychiatrists are beholden to the Goldwater Rule, how can this ever be legit for political scientists?
🚨 New article out at PAID
I triangulate
@csestweets
voter data in 22 countries and personality expert ratings for 49 top politicians🌍
TL;DR: voters scoring high on
#populist
attitudes tend to like politicians with dark personality traits
➡️ ungated:
Hey dear colleague, have you been working on ANYTHING prior to Brexit and Trump that you never managed to get published? Now you can just paste "POPULISM" all over it and resubmit!
What do we have to do to convince Germanophones that populism is not nativism? We understand that Volk has a bad connotation, but come on guys, you can do better.
The Hellenic Studies Program at
@YaleMacMillan
will have the honor of hosting Natalie Alkiviadou
@NatalieAlk
for a talk of the Greek far right and international law on October 12, 12pm. Feel free to join us in person or over Zoom. Registration link here:
Measuring corruption via opinion surveys is laughable. It should be measured by its economic impact, at a global scale. Given dieselgate, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Cum-ex, etc., Germany easily tops the list as most corrupt country in the world.
🤘🤘🤘
"The main point symbolized by metal music in Turkey was its lyrical and artistic ability to express different points of view loudly enough against the uniform religious and nationalist culture"
If, in a parallel universe, climate change was causing global sea levels to fall instead of rise, I am pretty sure that stock markets would be going ballistic. Think of all that extra real estate, the opportunity, the dynamic. A world full of New Frontiers all around and within!
Another populist social movement unfolding, in Lebanon this time. Alas, political scientists and sociologists exaggerate (and frequently misclassify) populism at the party system level while ignoring grassroots populism, a far more genuine imho expression of the phenomenon.
Watch: After the speech of Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese protesters chant “all of them, all of them, all of them. Nasrallah is one of them,” in the demonstrations demanding a sweeping overhaul of Lebanon’s political system.
So we supposed to be celebrating that Meloni is the first woman PM in Italy and Sunak, child of Indian immigrants, will rule the former Imperial center. Ok, sure, I'll celebrate for like five seconds.
Thank you Yannis Stavrakakis and
@G_Katsambekis
for giving me the space and allowing me to veer away from what was originally intended. It was a joy working with you. You can find the chapter in my researchgate page:
20+ years of warning the world against the rise of the Dutch far right, countless workshops, conferences, and publications on the same topic, and when it FINALLY happens in the year 2024, ladies and gentlemen, we are served a nothingburger?
Great piece. Here's a snippet that speaks to many: "A booming populism industry builds constituencies amongst politicians and citizens (thus enlarging their intellectual ‘markets’) and secures a seat at the table with liberals looking for remedies."
My article with Arthur Borriello (not on Twitter, bless his soul) re-assessing Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism - its virtues and vices, strengths and weaknesses - is also out today with Journal of Political Ideologies. Riffing on a Perry Anderson book.
@duncanmcdonnell
would you say VAR is a crudely technocratic intervention that threatens to undermine the traditions of a predominantly populist sport?
The situation with EU-funded grants on the study of the far right is bound to get kinda (cough) "complicated" after the next Commission is in place. Academic entrepreneurs will need to come up with a term that Meloni approves. The EU giveth and the EU may otherwise taketh away.
Horrible book. Critchlow pretends to defend grassroots populism in the US but his real purpose is to whitewash the far right while smearing BLM as a Soros-funded movement. What was University of Pennsylvania Press thinking when they decided to publish it?
The 2nd ed. of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements is out, with my entry on "Left Wing Populist Movements". Ten years ago when I was starting my PhD, I would have rofl'd if you had told me my name would once appear in there.
🔖Την Τετάρτη 7 Ιουνίου, ο Λέκτορας Πάρις Ασλανίδης
@parisaslanidis
μιλά
@EKKEgr
για τον #λαϊκισμό "από τα κάτω". Συντονίζει ο ερευνητής του ΕΚΚΕ
@G_Katsambekis
📍Κρατίνου 9 και Αθηνάς, 8ος όροφος
#λαϊκισμός #ΙΠΕ #Ημερίδες #αγανακτισμένοι
Greece worst score on media freedom in 46 countries: "Only a small minority think the news is free from undue political influence in Greece (7%)".
I'd like to personally meet every single person in that 7% and give them a warm, tight hug.
It was obvious since mid-May that Berleymont coined the "hard right" as a new term to label the EPP's potential allies in the European far right, and tipped journalists to start using it. Now waiting for the first CfP that will bow to the new directive
Greece on a path that leads straight to Orbanization. Widespread graft, oligarchs dominant, corrupt judiciary, blatant violations of human rights, and above all, near total control of the domestic media landscape. Our only real sources of information are foreign outlets.
Greece is reportedly using third country nationals to help pushback other asylum seekers. According to those who spoke to the TCNs, they do it in exchange for travel documents and stolen items.
#RefugeesGr
My latest for
@AJEnglish
👇
Few more ideas: pets cause populism, climate change causes populism, pollution causes populism, strawberries cause populism, breathing causes populism, did I leave anything out?
"Why was William Jennings Bryan a populist?" Based on this question, I suggest a classification of populism scholars into three camps: historicist/structuralists, institutionalists, and discursivists:
Can we speak of a distinct type of Balkan communism during the Cold War? This question will be assessed at tomorrow's event at
@YaleMacMillan
. Come around if you are in New Haven or join us online by registering here:
My chapter on "Populism and Social Movements" was recently published in the Oxford Handbook of Populism. Many thanks to C. Cristóbal Kaltwasser and
@PaulAdamTaggart
for their help:
If you want to learn about the 1825 Decembrist Revolt (Восстание декабристов) in Russia and its links to the Greek Revolution of 1821-1830, register for our Yale Hellenic Studies event (March 1st, 12.00 EST | Speaker: Paul Bushkovitch, Yale) here:
Hug a koala, check.
Feed the kangaroos, check.
Next up in the list of priorities: presenting my work on Populist Social Movements at 17.30, Plaza/P5
#Brisbane
#ipsawc
Next Wednesday, 11/17 at 12 PM ET, join talk at Hellenic Studies Program by Dr. Dimitris Kamouzis (Center for Asia Minor Studies) "Between Turkish Nationalism and Greek Irredentism: The Greek Orthodox Community of Istanbul (ca. 1908-1923)"
@YaleMacMillan
I wonder if anyone who begins with the same definition would end up with the same list. In other words, how straightforward is this operationalization?
An amazing opportunity! Post-doctoral fellowship at
@ISPSYale
, for the new program on Democratic Innovations . See details & application:
#ISPSdemocracy
Grave danger that German current account surplus will NOT be the largest in the world this year. An urgent EU summit is called for to reimpose austerity in the periphery and keep the mercantilist engine humming.
Good Morning from Germany where terms of trade continues to deteriorate, which weighing heavily on trade account surplus. In last 3mths over prev 3mths trade account surplus fell 45%. Terms of trade set to fall further which is neg for growth & corp's profit margins. (via Ruland)
"Today 'methodology' in the social sciences is regarded with depressing frequency as synonymous with the study of advanced quantitative procedures, and a 'methodologist' is one who is expertly versed in the knowledge and use of such procedures." Herbert Blumer, 1969 🤣🤣🤣
Αύριο στις 4μμ στο
@EKKEgr
θα μιλήσουμε για το λαϊκιστικό περιεχόμενο του Κινήματος στο Γουδί το 1909 και θα κάνουμε μερικές ενδιαφέρουσες συγκρίσεις με το κίνημα των Αγανακτισμένων Πολιτών του 2011. Ελάτε να τα πούμε από κοντά ή συντονιστείτε στο
As I am teaching my course on the Euro Crisis again this semester, I had to re-read this 2017 piece by
@jafrieden
and
@stefwalter__
and it still resonates as the best brief overview of the political economy of the crisis.
I have an existential question: Is 35 too old to wake up one day and go through the entire Motorhead catalogue, enjoying it exactly the same as when I was 15?
EU announces it has agreed unanimously amongst all member countries to take in Ukrainian refugees fir up to 3 years without asking them to first apply for asylum. Just been announced following a meeting of EU Interior ministers
I know how to convince rich countries to give vaccines to poor ones. Spread fake news that "vaccine refugees" will hit their borders soon in droves if they don't, and then just wait for xenophobia to take care of it.
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government reportedly offered Pegasus and similar cyber tools to purchasing countries as an incentive for stronger ties or concessions, but Israeli officials have denied any quid pro quo." cc:
@nasoskook
@telloglou
Israel reportedly used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware as a diplomatic bargaining chip, and its misuse by many governments has intensified the bigger debate about surveillance technology. Find out more in our explainer:
New paper w/ Mario Fuks and
@Ttytamaki
at
@ElectoralStdies
: So thin it’s almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil
TL;DR: populist attitudes don't predict support for Bolsonaro in 🇧🇷, but anti-democratic/anti-liberal attitudes do
@AntonJaegermm
Its been decades (gulp...) since I read it, but I think Victor Hugo in Les Miserables also mentions at great length the untapped economic potential of human excrement for a city like Paris
I see many colleagues collaborating with the European Center for Populism Studies and I am hoping that they know what this Center stands for politically and who is funding it, because its website has zero information on funding sources and I find this very suspicious.
This article by
@CihanTugal
is by far the best and most thoughtful review of the field of populism studies in recent years. Very sad it has mostly passed unnoticed.