Populist Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

____Workshop concept
 

   Recent elections in Germany but also elsewhere have shown that populist parties are on the rise. No more are they mere outsiders at the edge of the political spectrum, but they even gained foothold within government coalitions. In recent years scholars increasingly devoted their intention to describing and analyzing populist attitudes, voters and parties. Yet, in many instances these insights remained specific to the distinctive fields of research. The workshop was designed to integrate ideas and explanations from various fields, i.e. political science, sociology, social psychology and communication science. In doing so, scholars discussed and put together combined approaches for analyzing and combatting populism. ◼

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___ Guests

Andrej Zaslove, Radbound University

Anne Schulz, University of Zurich

Bart Bonikowski, Harvard University, USA

Bruno Castanho Silva, University of Cologne

Christopher Wratil, University of Cologne

Heiko Giebler, WZB Berlin

Saskia Ruth, GIGA Hamburg

Susanne Veit, WZB Berlin

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For more information take a look at the program booklet(594.6 KB, 14 pages), which was also provided during the workshop.

 

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___Organizers

The workshop was organized by members of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences:

Marc Helbling, Political Science
Sebastian Jungkunz, Political Science
 

Image Credits: © Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences