Excited to see that my state of the field article “How to study populism and adjacent topics: A plea for both more and less focus” is now First View in the European Journal of Political Research.
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Short summary: (1/17) I discuss the literature on populism, thereby mainly focusing on the books and articles that have emerged in the last decade or so. There was an explosion of populism studies which differ from earlier work on populism in at least 5 ways: (2/17)

In a thought-provoking op-ed @nytimes, @davidrkadler argues that centrists, not extremists, are most hostile to democracy: nytimes.com/interactive/20…. Although the analyses on which the op-ed is based are interesting, I do not think that they warrant Adler’s main claim. #Thread 1. Employing WVS & EVS data, Adler recodes left/right self-placement (10points scale) into 5 categories: far left, center left, center, center right and far right. He shows that those who position themselves in the center are more hostile to democracy.