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📢 ECPS Publication Alert! 🚨📘

📖 Journal of Populism Studies (JPS)

📝 ‘Patriots to Defend Our Identity from the Islamisation of Europe’: How Populist Leaders Normalise Polarisation — A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

✍️ By Dr. Valeria Reggi

🔗 Read the article: jps.populismstudies.org/articles/pat...
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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📢 ECPS Interview

📘 Dr. Laura Rovelli: Javier Milei’s Anti-Science and Denialist Policies Undermine Argentina’s Scientific Institutions

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🇦🇷🔬Dr. Rovelli: Argentina’s knowledge ecosystem is facing an unprecedented crisis.

📖 Read now: populismstudies.org/dr-rovelli-m...
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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📘 ECPS Report

⚡️Workshop Series — Session 6 : “Populism & the Crisis of Representation – Reimagining Democracy in Theory & Practice”

‼️ The discussion examined how populism reflects & reshapes the crisis of representation in contemporary democracies.

👉 Read: www.populismstudies.org/virtual-work...
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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📢 ECPS Interview

📘 Dr. Koen Vossen: The Anti-Islam Core Is the Most Important Part of Wilders’s PVV

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

📌 Dr. Vossen offers a sharp analysis of the ideological evolution & endurance of Geert Wilders’s PVV.

📍 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/dr-vossen-th...
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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📢 ECPS Commentary

🏙️ Can Mamdani’s Municipal Socialism Counter Democratic Backsliding?

✍️ By Ibrahim Ozturk

🧭 As democracies weaken across the globe, Zohran Mamdani offers a test case for whether municipal socialism can counter rising authoritarianism. → www.populismstudies.org/can-mamdanis...
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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📢 ECPS Interview

🎙️Dr. Monika de Silva: Anti-Gender Narratives Are Highly Interlinked & Interconnected Across Borders

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🔍 Dr. de Silva traces how anti-gender discourse has evolved into a transnational political script.

📚 Read: www.populismstudies.org/dr-de-silva-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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📢 ECPS Interview

⚡️Assoc. Prof. Frantz: The Rise of Personalist Leaders Is Fueling Unpredictable Global Conflict

🗣️ Frantz warns that global surge of personalist leadership is eroding democratic institutions & heightening risk of international conflict. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-f...
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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🎥 ECPS Interview — VIDEO

🎓 Assoc. Prof. Rory Truex: We Need the GOP to Reclaim Its Role as a Check on Trump

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🎥 Watch the interview now:▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXV5...

📖 Read the interview: populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-t...
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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📢 ECPS Interview

🎓 Truex: We Need the GOP to Reclaim Its Role as a Check on Trump

📌 Dr. Rory Truex of Princeton describes Trump as a “proto-autocrat” whose efforts to erode institutional autonomy resemble classic patterns of competitive authoritarianism.

📖 www.populismstudies.org/assoc-prof-t...
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🌍 ECPS Virtual Workshop Series

🗳️ Session 6 — Populism and the Crisis of Representation: Reimagining Democracy in Theory & Practice

📆 Thursday, November 13, 2025 — 🕒 15:00–17:00 (CET)

🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🔗 For more information: www.populismstudies.org/workshop-ser...
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🎥ECPS Interview / VIDEO

🇳🇱🗳️ Dr. Simon Otjes: The 2025 Dutch Elections Marked Not Populism’s Decline, but Its Reconfiguration

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️ Watch the interview: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5G...

📖 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/dr-otjes-the...
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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📢 ECPS Interview

🗳️ 🇳🇱 Professor Sarah de Lange: D66’s Victory in Dutch Elections Cannot Be Presented as a Victory over Populism

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🔗 Read the interview: www.populismstudies.org/professor-de...
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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✨ ECPS Interview

🇳🇱 Otjes: The Dutch Elections Marked Not Populism’s Decline, but Its Reconfiguration

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🧠 Dr. Simon Otjes offers sharp insights into the shifting balance between centrism & populism in the Netherlands.

🔗 Read: www.populismstudies.org/dr-otjes-the...
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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📢 ECPS Report

🌍 Virtual Workshop Series — Session 5: “Constructing the People: Populist Narratives, National Identity & Democratic Tensions”

The session explored how populists construct “the people” as both a democratic ideal & a tool of exclusion.

📚 Read: www.populismstudies.org/virtual-work...
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO

🗣️ Professor Juan Bautista Lucca: Javier Milei Is Ultra-Neoliberal in Economics but Ultra-Populist in Rhetoric 🇦🇷

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️ Watch the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmTB...

📖 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/professor-lu...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🎙️ ECPS Interview

🧩 Professor Juan Bautista Lucca: Milei Is Ultra-Neoliberal in Economics but Ultra-Populist in Rhetoric

🖋️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🇦🇷 Professor Lucca analyzes Argentina’s rapidly changing populist landscape under Javier Milei.

🔗 Read: populismstudies.org/professor-lu...
November 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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🎥 ECPS Interview / VIDEO

🗣️ Professor Llamazares: Authoritarianism Is Very Weak in Argentina, Whose Popular Culture Is Deeply Democratic

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️ Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_A...

🔗 Read the interview: populismstudies.org/prof-llamaza...
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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🎙️ ECPS Interview

🗣️ Prof. Ivan Llamazares: Authoritarianism is very weak in Argentina, whose popular culture is deeply democratic

🇦🇷 He argues that Milei's radical “chainsaw politics” deepen polarization but stop short of authoritarian transformation.

🔗 www.populismstudies.org/prof-llamaza...
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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📢 ECPS Commentary

📘 What Is the Ideology That Has Attained Social Hegemony? Let Us Call It Simply “Nativism”

✍️ João Ferreira Dias

🧩 Dr. Dias argues that the defining ideology of the contemporary right is not populism or illiberalism—but nativism.

📚 Read: www.populismstudies.org/what-is-the-...
October 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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🎥 Watch Now – ECPS Interview

🗣️ Dr. Mariana Sendra: “Milei May See His Victory as a Blank Check to Override Institutions”

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

▶️ Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy74...

📖 Read the interview: populismstudies.org/dr-sendra-mi...
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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📢 UNTOLD Europe Workshop: The Impact of Colonial Legacies on European Migration Policies

📌The workshop gathered scholars, journalists, activists to explore how historical hierarchies & colonial frameworks continue to influence European migration policy. 🔗 www.populismstudies.org/untold-europ...
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🎙️ECPS Interview

📢 Prof. Sean Wilentz: We’re No Longer Living in a Truly Democratic Regime in the US

📌In a deeply sobering interview Prof. Wilentz warns that the US has moved “beyond a constitutional crisis” into a state of “constitutional failure.”

📖Read: www.populismstudies.org/professor-wi...
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🎙️ ECPS Interview

🗣️ Dr. Mariana Sendra: Milei May See His Victory as a Blank Check to Override Institutions

⚖️ She warns that Milei & his followers might interpret their strong midterm showing “as a green light to override institutional constraints.”

📚 Read: www.populismstudies.org/dr-sendra-mi...
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🌍 ECPS & UNTOLD Europe Project!

‼️We’re proud to partner in this 🇪🇺 EU-funded project led by Oxfam Intermón to uncover the legacies of colonialism shaping today’s Europe. Together, we aim to build a more inclusive and reflective Europe. 💫

🔗 Learn more: populismstudies.org/untold-europ...
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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📢 ECPS Interview / 🎥 VIDEO

📘 Professor Gijs Schumacher: “The Netherlands Is Moving into a Post-Populist Era”

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

🎥 Watch the interview 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1_L...

📖 Read the interview: 🔗 populismstudies.org/professor-sc...
October 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM