The Populists are Coming! Counter-Mobilization in German Cities Against Populist Movements

• In Event: Support For and Opposition to Populist Parties

Brief Overview

The paper analyses the effect of counter-mobilization on the geographical diffusion of populist movements in Western democracies. The empirical analysis makes use of a unique event dataset of (counter)protest events by the German Pegida movement.

Author

• Johannes Vüllers, University of Leiden