Populism and the Reshaping of the Post-War Political Order in Europe

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Populism has been the most striking political development in European politics of the past decade, both in the distinctive difference of populist parties to the mainstream parties which dominated European party systems until now, and in their putative mission effectively to remove establishment elites and overturn the policies and practices associated with them. The ECPR’s Panel will explore this phenomenon in Europe, with a particular focus on party deinstitutionalisation and its impact on trust and democratic quality, the populist use of social media and the media and forms of communication more generally, and the relationship between populism and recent forms of nationalism.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / European Consortium for Political Research

Individual Presentations

• Measuring and Comparing Populism: The Cases of Catalonia and Scotland - Jose Javier Olivas Osuna, National Distance Education University (UNED)

• Media–Polity Relations and Populist Electoral Success - Máté Mátyás, Corvinus University of Budapest

• Party System De-institutionalization and Its Consequences on Democracy - Vincenzo Emanuele, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome; Alessandro Chiaramonte, University of Florence

• Populism and Subversive Campaigning: a 4th Era of Political Communication? - Rachel K. Gibson, University of Manchester; Andrea Roemmele, Hertie School of Governance

Chair

• Martin J Bull University of Salford

Discussant

• Despina Alexiadou University of Strathclyde