Security at What Cost? Punitive Populism and Democratic Trade-offs in Ecuador
In this commentary, Emilio Hernández examines Ecuador’s recent security crisis through the lens of punitive populism, offering a nuanced account...
Dismantling an Embedded Autocracy
In this timely and analytically rich commentary, Associate Professor Attila Antal examines the aftermath of Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat and...
What Orbán’s Defeat Changes—and Does Not Change—for France’s Far Right
In this incisive commentary, Dr. Gwenaëlle Bauvois examines the broader European implications of Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat, focusing on its...
The Ripple Effect: How a Finnish Hate Speech Case Fuels Transatlantic Culture Wars
Dr. Gwenaëlle Bauvois shows how a single legal case can reverberate far beyond its national context, becoming a transnational resource...
When Change Becomes Conflict: Immigration and the Politics of Cultural Backlash
This analysis by Yacine Boubia challenges the dominant economic explanations of populism by foregrounding the central role of cultural transformation....
Survival Populism: How Environmental Crisis Fuels Democratic Distrust in the Global South
In this commentary, Dr. Oludele Solaja introduces the notion of “survival populism” to capture how environmental crisis and material insecurity...
When Fuel Prices Turn Political: Trust, Climate Reform, and Everyday Populism in Nigeria
This commentary examines how fuel pricing in Nigeria has become a central site of democratic contestation, linking economic reform to...
How Communication Style Shapes Political Trust More Than Populist Content in Domestic and International Politics
This commentary advances a critical intervention in debates on political persuasion by foregrounding original pilot research on communication and trust....
When Floods Become Political: Disaster Relief, Democratic Trust, and Everyday Environmental Populism in Nigeria
In this insightful commentary, Dr. Oludele Solaja reconceptualizes recurrent flooding in Nigeria as a site of political contestation rather than...
Gender and the Return of Culture Wars in the Portuguese Parliament
In this timely commentary, Dr. João Ferreira Dias examines how recent parliamentary debates on gender identity in Portugal signal the...
Algorithmic Environmental Populism and the Digital Politics of Waste in Africa
Dr. Oludele Solaja’s analysis introduces the concept of “Algorithmic Environmental Populism” to illuminate how digital platforms are reshaping the politics...
Algorithmic Populism and the Politics of Waste: How AI Reproduces Plastic Colonialism in the Global South
In this incisive analysis, Dr. Oludele Solaja interrogates how AI-driven waste governance reproduces global inequalities under the guise of efficiency....