by admin-jps | Feb 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
“At last,” the editors of The Oxford Handbook of Populism declare, “everyone understands that populism matters. Recent political events have brought the word ‘populism’ to the center of discussions across the globe” (Kaltwasser et al., 2017, p. 1). A quick glance at...
by admin-jps | Nov 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
The title of this article is a reference to Pierre Bourdieu’s 1973 lecture ‘Public opinion does not exist’ as it seems particularly fitting here. As Bourdieu explained ‘in saying that public opinion does not exist, I mean it does not exist in the form which some...
by admin-jps | Nov 27, 2022 | 1, Volume 1, 2022
Defining populism has been plagued by many difficulties. Looking at the dynamics of these debates, at least three patterns can be identified. First, the discussions tend to initially focus on what specific theme should determine the definition of populism. Thus, one...
by admin-jps | Nov 26, 2022 | 1, Volume 1, 2022
The Use of Medical Populism to Claim the Right to Rule in Poland during a Public Health Emergency[1] The coronavirus pandemic has considerably impacted ongoing political conflicts, power struggles, and (in)stability of political regimes across the world. Election...
by admin-jps | Oct 25, 2022 | 1, Volume 1, 2022
Just within less than two decades, the world has been experiencing an era of constant crises; from the economic crisis that erupted in 2008 that led to the eurozone sovereign-dept crisis, to the EU crisis that followed the UK’s vote to Brexit, to the refugee crisis...