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.

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, 6th – 8th 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
3rd Populism Specialist Group’s Annual Workshop, Loughborough

June 19, 2019
Workshop Programme, 12-13 April 2019, Loughborough University

Populism, Liberalism, Democracy – 3rd Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, 12-13 April 2019, Loughborough University *All the panels take place at Room K105, Manzoni building. The Keynotes take place at Room U.0.05 Brockington Extension building. DAY 1 | FRIDAY, 12 APRIL 08:30-09:00 | Registration 09:00-09:15| Welcome by hosts/organisers 09:15-10:30 | Panel 1: Populism and Performativity […]

April 9, 2019
Populism, Liberalism, Democracy – 3rd Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, 12-13 April 2019, Loughborough University

Keynote speakers: Ruth Wodak, Emerita Professor of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University Michael Freeden, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford Call for Papers Populism has been a buzzword for quite a few years now. But after Brexit and Trump, and with the rise of new populist actors in Europe and beyond we have been […]

December 10, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS – 69th Political Studies Association Annual International Conference, Nottingham, 15-17 April 2019

The Populism Specialist Group of the PSA invites paper proposals on the following themes: Panel 1: Populism(s) in Opposition/Populism(s) in Power ‘Populism in power’ seems to be a rather counterintuitive notion to the extent that public wisdom as well as most academic research are premised on the idea that populism can only be effective […]

September 6, 2018