PSA Populism Specialist Group – Page 2 – The Populism Specialist Group purports to facilitate a critical dialogue about contemporary democratic politics, and populism’s complex role within that. It particularly invites the participation and contribution of international scholars from countries and regions where populism has marked political culture, shaping political frontiers and stimulating antithetical discursive articulations.

CALL FOR PAPERS – ‘Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years After the Movements of the Squares’, 8-10 September 2021

Call for Papers Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the SquaresSeptember 8-10, 2021, Free University BerlinJoint conference of the DVPW Populism Group Initiative & the PSA Populism Specialist Group The past decade has seen the emergence of – and growing scholarly interest in – populism in conjunction…

January 11, 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS – ‘Populism: New Perspectives’, 5th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, 10-11 June 2021

Keynote speaker: Aurelien Mondon (University of Bath) Populism remains as hotly debated as ever with relevant studies proliferating in recent years to an unprecedented extent. This has led many to talk about the emergence of a distinct field of ‘populism studies’ which spans disciplines from political theory and comparative politics to anthropology and international relations.…

January 8, 2021
Watch keynote speeches from the 4th annual populism psa specialist group workshop, 14 – 18th september 2020

September 18, 2020
The ‘Populist Moment’: Temporality, Transformations, Crises – 4th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, 14 – 18 September 2020, Zoom Conference

DAY 1 | Monday, September 14 09:30-10:00| Welcome by hosts/organisers 10:00-11:15 | Panel 1: Populism, institutions and power Seongcheol Kim (WZB Berlin) – ‘A Typology of Populist Discourses in the Visegrád Four’ David Sánchez (Complutense University Madrid) – ‘Populism in times of institutionalism: the Spanish case’ Beatrice Carella (Scuola Normale Superiore) – ‘Anti-neoliberal populism in…

August 28, 2020
Our second newsletter is out with a refreshed look!

This issue is dedicated to left-wing populism. It features interviews with Paula Biglieri and Luke March, timely commentary on the future and past of Left populism by Giorgos Venizelos and Yannis Stavrakakis, and reflections on the complex relationship between the pandemic and populism by Antonis Galanopoulos. It also includes four book reviews of recent publications…

July 10, 2020
The ‘Populist Moment’: Temporality, Transformations, Crises – 4th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, 2-3 April 2020, University of Brighton

Keynote speakers Simon Tormey (University of Bristol) María Esperanza Casullo (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro) Call for Papers After the rise of Trump and Brexit, it has almost become a cliché among scholars and commentators to suggest that we are living through a ‘populist moment.’ As the argument goes, populism has always been a significant…

December 6, 2019
Our first newsletter is out!

September 30, 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS – 70th Political Studies Association Annual International Conference, Edinburgh, 6-8 April 2020

The Populism Specialist Group (SG) is requesting paper and panel proposals for the PSA’s 70th annual conference in Edinburgh. The phenomenon of populism appears alive and well and shows no signs of disappearing with multiple manifestations around the globe. Why is this? Are the extant analytical and conceptual frameworks sufficient, or are they in need of development? And…

September 20, 2019
Populism SG Membership Meeting

June 19, 2019
69th PSA Annual International Conference

June 19, 2019