Research Handbook on Populism

Examining one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary politics, media and academia, the Research Handbook on Populism brings together a diverse range of academics from across the globe to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of the developing field of populism research.

This prescient Research Handbook highlights the crucial need for conceptual reflexivity, theoretical awareness, methodological pluralism and historical alertness as guiding principles in populism research. Chapters showcase cutting-edge research methods, from surveys to ethnography and from discourse studies to psychoanalytic political theorisation. Enacting diverse sensibilities, they explore a wealth of topics, such as digital populism, anti-populism, feminism, colonialism, the politics of emotions, populist constitutionalism, party politics, social movements, and relevant artistic practices. Offering rigorous comparative perspectives and highlighting promising avenues for future research, this Research Handbook deftly illustrates the dynamism of populism research.

The Research Handbook on Populism will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers working in political theory, comparative politics and political sociology as well as those involved in populism research from across the social sciences and humanities. Providing in-depth accounts of concrete phenomena and addressing emerging challenges at a global level, it will also be of interest to professionals in journalism and a variety of national and international organizations.

Contributors: Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Ioannis Andreadis, Paris Aslanidis, Petar Bankov, Giovanni Barbieri, Paula Biglieri, Katy Brown, Luciana Cadahia, Maria Esperanza Casullo, Angelos Chryssogelos, Annie Collovald, Nicole Curato, Jacopo Custodi, Benjamin De Cleen, Donatella della Porta, Mario Dunkel, Emmy Eklundh, Dani Filc, Paolo Gerbaudo, Marcello Gisondi, Jason Glynos, Norbert Götz, Jana Goyvaerts, Simona Guerra, Niko Hatakka, Anton Jäger, Akritas Kaidatzis, Giorgos Katsambekis, Seongcheol Kim, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Paul Lucardie, William Mazzarella, Grigoris Markou, Aurelien Mondon, Yiannis Mylonas, Geneviève Nootens, Pierre Ostiguy, Enrico Padoan, Emilia Palonen, Panos Panayotu, Konstantinos Papastathis, Marcos Emilio Pérez, Martín Portos, Charles Postel, Patricia Rehus, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Sandoval, Anna Schwenck,   Sishuwa Sishuwa,Yannis Stavrakakis, Liv Sunnercrantz, Federico Tarragoni, Lasse Thomassen, Myrto Tsakatika, Maria Tsigkou, Simon Tunderman, Steven M. Van Hauwaert, Giorgos Venizelos, Savvas Voutyras, Linus Westheuser,Kurt Weyland, Ruth Wodak, Dakila Kim P. Yee, Lisa Zanotti, Thomás Zicman de Barros

Advisory Board: Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster), Pierre Ostiguy (Universidad de Valparaiso), Kenneth Roberts (Cornell University), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University and University of Vienna).