Populism & Radical Right researchers
A personal list of academics working on populism and the radical right.
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@fabianhabersack.bsky.social
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 Postdoc at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social PhD from @unisalzburg.bsky.social Alum of @sciencespo.bsky.social Party Competition | Representation | Democracy | Far Right 🌐 www.fabianhabersack.com
@roizur.bsky.social
Political scientist at the University of Essex. Parties, voters, institutions, and representation. www.roizur.com
@emiliapalonen.bsky.social
Works as Research Programme Director in Datafication, Helsinki Hub on Emotions Populism and Polarisation (helsinki.fi/HEPP) Senior University Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Helsinki. IPSA Executive Committee member, TSV.fi vice-chair.
@gscheiring.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Comparative Politics Georgetown Qatar • Economic shocks, inequality, authoritarianism, class relations, populism, health • Political economy of development • FirstGen • former Fellow @ Harvard CES & Cambridge Sociology • gaborscheiring.com
@lcjacobs89.bsky.social
🅰️ 🇧🇪| Politicoloog | PhD | @m2p_be @UAntwerpen | @SciencePoULB | Chair @ECPR_Polcom | Political Communication, Parties, Populism, Voting
@pjost.bsky.social
Communication scholar @ifpmainz.bsky.social, interested in (social) media, politics, extremism | Currently visiting professor @hmtmh.bsky.social | co-speaker @dgpuk-meth.bsky.social
@cecilealduy.bsky.social
Specialist of the far right and populism. Professor of French Literature, Cinema, and Culture at Stanford. Concerned citizen. Political Discourse Analysis.
@fabord.bsky.social
#PoliticalScience - University of Urbino (Italy); Associate Editor for Communications @sespjournal.bsky.social
@mlewandowsky.bsky.social
“Der Kölner Populismus-Experte” (Express) Politikwissenschaftler Lehrbeauftragter an der Uni Mainz Autor bei Kiepenheuer & Witsch und C.H. Beck Alle Meinungen hier privat.
@dafnoukos.bsky.social
Chair in Comparative Politics, University of York Research on far right, populism, nationalism and European Politics Joint Editor-In-Chief of Nations and Nationalism, Political Studies Steering Committee ECPR Extremism&Democracy LSE PhD
@dbonansinga.bsky.social
University of Southampton, prev. UCL & YouGov. Working on Populism + Insecurity, Emotions, Visual communication. Co-convening @psa-italian.bsky.social
@audreygagnon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at U of Ottawa, affiliated with @crexuio.bsky.social / National identity & immigration; ethics and methods when researching the far right; far-right movements in Québec & Canada / Co-editor of the newsletter of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
@jamesrdennison.bsky.social
Political and social scientist Prof @mpc-eui.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social; Visitor @theeuropecenter.bsky.social Interests: attitudes, behaviour, comms, migration, quant, 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 politics www.jamesdennison.eu
@akoustov.bsky.social
Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" (http://tinyurl.com/4rwpr6dc). Professor at UNC Charlotte. https://alexanderkustov.org/
@rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social
Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism. New article on space, time, memory, and distortion in VR: https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241283895
@giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social
Lecturer in Political Communication, Cyprus University of Technology. Co-convener of @populismpsa.bsky.social Author of Populism in Power https://tinyurl.com/PopInPow www.giorgosvenizelos.com
@chriswratil.bsky.social
Associate Professor for Government @univie.ac.at, works on political representation & behavior, public opinion, populism & the EU - usual disclaimers
@drmkuisma.bsky.social
Political scientist, Program Lead and Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Tübingen. Welfare states and social citizenship || ideas and institutions || populism || social democracy || Nordic / British / European politics || Baggies
@tevoelker.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @WZB Berlin Social Science Center | PhD @Freie Universität Berlin | Democracy, Far Right, Protest, Political Communication
@paultaggart.bsky.social
Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex. Populism Euroscepticism Unpolitics
@ezgielci.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Ozyegin University. Research on populism, autocratization, nativism, collective nostalgia. ezgielci.github.io
@javiercarbonell.bsky.social
Deputy Director, Future Policy Lab | Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre | Teaching Assistant, Sciences Po | PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh | Inequality, nationalism, far-right and youth https://sites.google.com/view/javiercarbonell/home
@alexhlar.bsky.social
Language, Psychology, Politics. Professor of International Security, University of Warwick. New Book: The Uncertainty Doctrine (CUP 2023)
@turnbulldugarte.com
Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈 Associate Editor POQ, EJPG, and R&P he/him Far-right, social identities, & electoral behaviour Writing a book on LGBTQ voters for PUP 🏳️🌈🗳️ http://turnbulldugarte.com/ #ihadablackdog https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
@larboe.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska–Curie PhD Fellow @ GEM-Diamond University of Amsterdam/Université Libre de Bruxelles Research on far-right politics & illiberalism.
@williamcallison.bsky.social
Political theorist and Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. Political ecology and the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
@jamoeberl.bsky.social
He / Him | Senior Scientist in Political Communication at @univie.ac.at | #AUTNES 🇦🇹 | #ACPP 💉 | #MEDem 🗳️ @medem.bsky.social. Posts in 🇦🇹/🇺🇸 about Research, Elections, Public Health, & (Social)Media – sometimes BoardGames 🎲 or Birds 🐦
@chetanr.bsky.social
PhDing, Diplomacy and Disarmament, JNU | Associate Editor, 9DashLine| Indian Foreign Policy, Populism, Indo-Pacific, Myanmar| MUFC 🚩
@bartekpytlas.bsky.social
Autor 'Rechtsradikale Politik in Europa: Vom Rand in den Mainstream' (utb) | Award-winning researcher of the radical right | Equality & Anti-Discrimination Data | Worker kid in academia #FirstGen https://bartekpytlas.wordpress.com/
@zethis.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Stockholm University | Political behaviour and historical political economy |
@meibauir.bsky.social
Asst Prof in International Relations, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (@radboudpol.bsky.social) 🇳🇱; IR theory, foreign policy, communication, security, intervention; no-fly zones; he/him; posts in 🇩🇪/🇬🇧
@lubardab.bsky.social
MSCA postdoc @upf.edu. Formerly at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & @weareceu.bsky.social. Odd bedfellows in politics, environment, everyday fascism. Author of Far-Right Ecologism. Work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZQ2VTfIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
@pzag.bsky.social
Political scientist @SWPSUniversity @UAM_Madrid @UCBerkeley Polish National Election Study / Electoral behavior / Central & Eastern Europe / populism / historical legacies / Spain / Poland
@dralbertazziuk.bsky.social
Professor of Politics, Research Community Lead (School of Social Sciences) @UniOfSurrey. #populism, #EuropeanPolitics, #partyorganisation. Posts=my views.
@bogatyrev.bsky.social
- completing my PhD at Bocconi University, soon joining LSE as postdoc - working on political behavior and accountability for illiberals & authoritarians + quant methods - 🏳️🌈 he/they https://sites.google.com/view/konstantin-bogatyrev/
@agustinharoleon.bsky.social
📊 Data Scientist | 📈 Data Analyst | 🔍 Sociologist Specialized in political & electoral analysis, electoral surveys, and social inequalities. Focused on voting trends. Exploring AI, predictive modeling, and data visualization.
@panievsky.bsky.social
presidential fellow at City University of London & research affiliate at University of Cambridge | populism in power, media under attack, future of news | ex Haaretz, Gates-Cambridge, Molad | soon out: https://footnotepress.com/books/the-new-censorship/
@aripollservent.bsky.social
Professor for EU Politics, Director of @sceus.bsky.social at Uni Salzburg | working on #EU, #EuropeanParliament, #migration, #populism | Teaches at @collegeofeurope.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/in/ariadna-ripoll-servent
@jasminskoenig.bsky.social
📈 data & viz at @spiegel.de 👩🏻🎓 PhD Candidate at @uni-hamburg.de, former guest @duke-university.bsky.social & @linneuni.bsky.social, studies populists, courts & their interactions. #dataviz, #rstats & #svelte. Private account, her/she
@emmyeklundh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff Uni. Researching populist parties and movements. Forthcoming book “Europe’s Populist Condition”
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social
#Linguist, lecturer & researcher at Swansea University. Interested in #ForensicLinguistics, #Identity, #OnlineHarms & the #RadicalRight. All views are my own. https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
@raffaelemstr.bsky.social
PhD researcher @ EUI | IR, political parties, far-right and security, IOs. https://www.raffaelemastrorocco.com/
@sajuria.com
Professor of Comparative Politics @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social . I walk with @pepagonzal.bsky.social, E&C. Host of www.bicameral.cl Director @espublicocl.bsky.social Editor @repjournal.bsky.social How to pronounce my name? https://namedrop.io/javiersajuria
@pavlosvas1.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of York & Associate Research at Cevipof, Sciences Po, working on political psychology & political behavior. pvasilopoulos.weebly.com
@theoaiolfi.bsky.social
Junior Professor at Université de Bourgogne | Associate researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Convenor of @populismpsa.bsky.social | Populism; Style; Far-right; Identity https://tinyurl.com/populiststyle
@fravittonetto.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Griffith University • Transnational populism and political communication
@alavizzari.bsky.social
Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad Complutense Madrid | Gender, political participation, social movements, LGBTQ+ | 🏳️🌈
@profannikawerner.bsky.social
Professor of Politics Currently Australian National University, soon University of Southampton @sotonpolitics.bsky.social Research: Democracy, populism, attitudes and values. Creating new spaces @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Private: Beaches, boxing and cats.
@eljorobado.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Central European University - Democracy Institute
@nathaliebrack.bsky.social
Professor in political science (Cevipol, Université libre de Bruxelles and College of Europe) / euroscepticism / radical right / conspiracy theories/ post-truth / European Parliament
@valentindaur.bsky.social
Postdoc at LMU Munich | PhD from Aarhus University Public Opinion | Party Competition | Political Communication | Far Right Parties | Survey Experiments
@eliemichel.bsky.social
Political Scientist - Université de Lausanne & FORS Elections | Political Behavior | Parties | Public Opinion
@cwegscheider.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @IfPol_WWU | PhD from @PLUS_1622 | Democracy, Parties & Voters | cwegscheider.com
@davidevampa.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Territorial Politics, University of Edinburgh Co-director of @ccc-research.bsky.social Lead editor of @regfedst.bsky.social Chair of @ecprfederalism.bsky.social Views are my own.
@jakobschwoerer.bsky.social
FES Nordics; Lecturer Leuphana University - Political Parties / the Radical Right / Communication / Migration / Security Stockholm - Lüneburg - Quito Web: jakobschwoerer.weebly.com
@veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
Political analyst | Looking at radical right impact on intl affairs & democracy | Working with GMF, ECFR | PhD-ing at Viadrina | Views are my own My book --> "Depleting Democracies": http://t.ly/NsNey
@niklasbolin.bsky.social
Political Scientist at Mid Sweden University. Research on parties and elections. https://www.miun.se/en/personnel/b/niklasbolin/
@cfieschi.bsky.social
Comparative political analyst. Populism, authoritarianism, social and political identities. Fellow @EUI_Schuman
@gkatsambekis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics | Research on populism, democracy, authoritarianism, radical left politics, social movements | Opinions my own
@julianachueri.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics at VU Amsterdam | Latinoamericana
@podmalm.bsky.social
SL in Politics. University of Edinburgh, PIR #PoliticsOfMigration. #MS #Leither 🏴 Own account/(re)posts=interesting https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/pontus-odmalm
@adrianfavero.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in European Politics & Society @univgroningen • Editorial Board @govandopp • (Transnational) Party Organisations | intra-EU migration | EU attitudes | Populism in Switzerland
@andreapirro.it
Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna / Editor of East European Politics / Editor of Routledge Studies in Extremism & Democracy / andreapirro.it 📚 ‘Movement Parties of the Far Right’ (Oxford University Press) out now: https://t.ly/KPhkV
@jonaslinde.bsky.social
Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. Public opinion, political behavior, and power pop.
@gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social
Doctoral Student | 💭📚✍🏻 Far-right politics & democracy, political behaviour | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine, but often based on research. | #firstgen Arbeiterkind | http://gabrielagreilinger.com
@hildecoffe.bsky.social
Professor in Politics, University of Bath, @Polis_Bath My research interests include political representation, public opinion, voting behaviour and gender. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-1XBR5MAAAAJ
@kurtsengul.bsky.social
Political communication and media scholar. Macquarie University postdoctoral research fellow. Researching: the far right, media, populism, fascism, and democracy 🌈 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WfjJQqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@pietrocastellig.bsky.social
Ass Prof @SciencePoULB Deputy director #Cevipol Migration politics Far-right parties & movements www.farpo.eu AS Roma 🔴🟡
@tiondelisa.bsky.social
PolSci PhD @HumboldtUni & research fellow @manifesto_proj | firstgen | populism, text-as-data, running & feminism | she/her |#ihadablackdog
@francescafeo.bsky.social
Political scientist interested in gender & LGBTI+ policies, parliaments, populism, Italian politics. I work as a postdoctoral fellow at UiB, for @gendersuccess.bsky.social.
@grattonecon.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Economics, UNSW Sydney. ARC Future Fellow http://gratton.org http://resilientdemocracylab.org For rocks&cats: http://instagram.com/prof_not_pro
@caterinafr.bsky.social
Associate Professor | SciencesPo_CEE | Editor European Journal of Political Research | Open science
@ammassarisofia.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Griffith University 🇦🇺 populist radical right • political parties • women’s and youth political participation sofiaammassari.com
@norocel.bsky.social
🇫🇮🇸🇪 #Firstgen AssocProf at #Lunduniversity former #MSCA IF #ULBruxelles I use #intersectionality in 💻 #extremism & #radicalright #populism #welfarechauvinism #criticalbigdata #criticalAI
@benmoffitt.bsky.social
Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, weird reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him Articles/publications here: https://monash.academia.edu/BenjaminMoffitt
@robert-a-huber.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science Research Methods at the University of Salzburg • Studies Populism and Climate Politics • Previously University of Reading and ETH Zurich • More info: www.robertahuber.com
@asheinze.bsky.social
Political scientist. Postdoc @unitrier.bsky.social. PI NurtureDEMOS @volkswagenstiftung.de. Speaker @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social. Researching parties, democracy, youth & the far right. Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tYW_mxYAAAAJ
@grahn.bsky.social
Associate Professor in political science at Uppsala University & @uppgap.bsky.social. Gender, sexuality, political behavior, segregation.🇸🇪🏳️🌈 Associate editor @respol.bsky.social Web: michalgrahn.com
@bcastanho.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. of Methods in Empirical Social Research at FU Berlin and EB member @methodsnet.bsky.social Politics, methods, and occasionally memes https://bcastanho.github.io/
@gefjonoff.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Hamburg & Leuphana University Lüneburg | PhD from Gothenburg University | Political behavior, gender and politics, radical right, young men. gefjonoff.com
@sophiahunger.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Computational Social Science Uni Bremen guest fellow WZB Berlin | PhD EUI | interested in protest, party competition, populism #FirstGen
@mlorimer.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University and Editor, PRX Journal. Visiting Fellow at LSE European Institute. Researches far right and differentiated integration. Personal website: www.martalorimer.com
@stijntvankessel.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Studies populism, radical right, politics of European integration. Staff page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/vankesselstijn.html
@hannaeback.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science @lund-university.bsky.social, co-editor @respol.bsky.social
@petraguasti.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Democratic Theory at IPS FSV UK • 2018/2019 Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard Ash • co-PI & PA5 leader at SYRI • EC member at ECPR
@kennypd.bsky.social
Political scientist (populism, democracy, identity politics, corruption). https://pauldkenny.com
@mauritsmeijers.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Representation at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 🇳🇱 || ERC Starting Grant holder DEMO-LIES: Deception in Democracy: Political Disinformation Accusations and Their Effects on Democratic Citizenship" || he/him || 🏡: 🇩🇪
@versteegenluca.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Vienna: Polarization, radical right, prosocial behavior//Political Psych. No lunch before 2pm. https://lucaversteegen.com
@lindabos.bsky.social
Associate Prof @UvA_Amsterdam | Populist Comm | Program Group Leader @PolComm | Board Member @UvA_ASCoR
@jensrydgren.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University | Research on nationalism, populism, radical right-wing parties and voters | Class politics | Ethnic relations | Social networks | My homepage: www.jensrydgren.se
@sabinedvolk.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (IRex), University of Tübingen, Germany I Far right, populism, memory, social movements.
@tamtagelashvili.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social / Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) @crexuio.bsky.social | studying far right in 🇬🇪&🇺🇦 | nationalism, far right, social movements, & methods and ethics
@sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics at KCL Interests: Euroscepticism, Far Right, Populism EIC: European Journal of Political Research https://www.sofiavasilopoulou.com/
@benstanley.eu
Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
@drspguerra.bsky.social
Political scientist | SEI, Sussex PhD | MA in 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 | Euroscepticism, Poland, CEE, Italy, early women of European integration | @repjournal.bsky.social co-editor & founding co-editor of PRX | Montalcini scholar 2014 | Two Palgrave books,OUP next | #EUsky 🇪🇺
@leoniedejonge.bsky.social
Prof. of Research on Far-Right Extremism @IRex/UniTübingen; researching far-right political actors & ideologies; PhD from @Cambridge_Uni; member of DeJongeAkademie @KNAW 📚
@grahammacklin.bsky.social
Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR