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Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality? by Norris, Pippa

“…In recent years, a progressive “cancel culture” in society, right-wing politicians and commentators claim, has silenced alternative perspectives, ostracized…”
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Is Populism an Ideology? A Refutation and a New Perspective by Aslanidis, Paris

“…The dominant theoretical paradigm originating in the work of Cas Mudde conceives of populism as a thin-centered ideology that focuses on the antagonism between…”
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Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style by Moffitt, Benjamin, Tormey, Simon

“…As a key feature of the contemporary political landscape, populism stands as one of the most contentious concepts in political science. This article presents a…”
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Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and ‘Throughput’ by Schmidt, Vivien A.

“…Scholars of the European Union have analyzed the EU's legitimacy mainly in terms of two normative criteria: output effectiveness for the people and input…”
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Populist Attitudes, Political Trust, and External Political Efficacy: Old Wine in New Bottles? by Geurkink, Bram, Zaslove, Andrej, Sluiter, Roderick, Jacobs, Kristof

“…Substantial scholarly attention has been devoted to explaining why voters support populist parties. Recently, a new concept has been introduced to gauge…”
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Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements by Yates, Luke

“…Recent work historicises and theoretically refines the concept of prefigurative politics. Yet disagreements over the question of whether or how it is…”
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Systematising Policy Learning: From Monolith to Dimensions by Dunlop, Claire A., Radaelli, Claudio M.

“…The field of policy learning is characterised by concept stretching and a lack of systematic findings. To systematise them, we combine the classic Sartorian…”
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Political Trust as the Evaluation of Process and Performance: A Cross-National Study of 42 European Countries by van der Meer, Tom, Hakhverdian, Armen

“…This article extends and tests the trust-as-evaluation approach that is dominant in political science. Citizens supposedly grant and withhold trust in politics…”
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Explaining Attitudes Toward Refugees and Immigrants in Europe by Abdelaaty, Lamis, Steele, Liza G

“…While there is a large literature on attitudes toward immigrants, scholars have not systematically examined the determinants of attitudes toward refugees…”
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How Are Political Institutions Gendered? by Lowndes, Vivien

“…Understanding the role of institutions can help explain why gender equality policies often fail and why the efforts of gender equality advocates are frequently…”
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The Potentials and Difficulties of Transnational Populism: The Case of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) by De Cleen, Benjamin, Moffitt, Benjamin, Panayotu, Panos, Stavrakakis, Yannis

“…The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), launched by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, seeks to construct a transnational left political…”
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Truth, Deliberative Democracy, and the Virtues of Accuracy: Is Fake News Destroying the Public Sphere? by Chambers, Simone

“…Do fake news and what some have labeled our post-truth predicament represent a new and deadly challenge to the epistemic presuppositions of the public sphere?…”
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Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession: Podemos and Its Competition with the Established Radical Left by Ramiro, Luis, Gomez, Raul

“…The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such…”
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Conspiracy Thinking in Europe and America: A Comparative Study by Walter, Annemarie S, Drochon, Hugo

“…What explains conspiracy thinking in Europe and America? This is the first and largest comparative study of conspiracy thinking to date, presenting findings…”
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Contesting Autocracy: Repression and Opposition Coordination in Venezuela by Jiménez, Maryhen

“…Opposition coordination varies widely in electoral autocracies. Sometimes, opposition parties are highly coordinated and create alliances, present joint…”
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Seeing the Other Side? Perspective-Taking and Reflective Political Judgements in Interpersonal Deliberation by Muradova, Lala

“…A healthy democracy needs citizens to make reflective political judgements. Sceptics argue that reflective opinions are either nonexistent or rare. Proponents…”
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Studying Populism in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on the Contemporary and Future Research Agenda by Mudde, Cas, Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal

“…Academics are increasingly using the concept of populism to make sense of current events such as the Brexit referendum and the Trump presidency. This is…”
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How is Political Violence Gendered? Disentangling Motives, Forms, and Impacts by Bardall, Gabrielle, Bjarnegård, Elin, Piscopo, Jennifer M

“…How is political violence gendered? We connect the traditional political violence literature’s emphasis on categorizing attacks to the gender and politics…”
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Political Leaders and Public Engagement: The Hidden World of Informal Elite–Citizen Interaction by Hendriks, Carolyn M, Lees-Marshment, Jennifer

“…To date, practical and scholarly work on participatory and deliberative governance has focused on supply-side issues such as how to engage citizens in public…”
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Emergency Europe by White, Jonathan

“…At the level of general principle, representative democracy is appealed to by the EU institutions and member states alike. Yet in today's Europe it risks being…”
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