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Populist politics

Aristotle Kallis (Keele): Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State. Giray Gerim (Eotvos Lorand): Re-thinking Populism within the Borders of Democracy. Paul Blokker (Charles): Populist Constitutionalism. Malte Fraoslee Ibsen (Copenhagen): The Populist Conjuncture: Legitimation Crisis in the Age of Globalized Capitalism. Populists are on the rise but this can be a moment for progressives too. Mikko Salmela (Helsinki) and Christian von Scheve (FU Berlin): Emotional Dynamics of Right- and Left-wing Political Populism. Is populism the future for the left? Donald Hughes reviews For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe (and more and more). Populism isn’t the problem: The charge of populism says at least as much about those making it as it does about their opponents.

Silvio Waisbord (GWU): The Elective Affinity Between Post-truth Communication and Populist Politics. Why populists reject evidence: People don’t change their minds based on facts — they need an alternate theory. How to fix fake news: Technology has given rise to an age of misinformation — but philosophy, and a closer look at our own social behavior, could help eliminate it.