1. Contemporary US Populism in Comparative Perspective (Kirk Hawkins, Levente Littvay)
Channel: Team Populism
Date: 2021-01-11

Kirk and Levi chat about their 2019 book, Contemporary US Populism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, Elements Series). This is part of a three episode series covering political speech in and after the 2016 US election.

Upcoming videos:

February 1 2021: Matthijs Rooduijn (University of Amsterdam) talks to Levi about his 2019 EJPR Artcile "State of the field: How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus"

February 8, 2021: Kirk Hawkins (Brigham Young University), head of Team Populism is talking to Steven about the Ideational Approach to Populism.

February 15 2021: Lenka Bustikova (Arizona State University) and Petra Guasti (Goethe University Frankfurt) showcase their their 2017 Politics and Governance article on populism in Central Europe, and most notably the illiberal turn of the region.

February 22 2021: Erin Jenne (Central European University) and Levi discuss their 2014 work on the Tea Party and how it relates to today's populism.

March 1 2021: Kurt Weyland (University of Texas at Austin) talks to Steven about his political strategic definition of populism, how it holds up to other definitions and what the main benefits are. Added bonus: we briefly talk about his recent Perspectives in Politics piece on the US.

March 8 2021: Lisa Zanotti (Diego Portales) talks to Steven about how polarisation and populism relate to each other. We pay particular attention to the role of opposition forces and distinguish between affective and ideological polarisation.

March 15: : Kristof Jacobs (Radboud) talks to Steven about relationship between democratic innovations and populism, both from a supply and demand-side perspective. Much of our conversation draws from his ongoing NWO VIDI project Dinopop