TEAM

Manuela Caiani and Tiago Carvalho

START YEAR 2018

END YEAR 2020

The research project will focus on the consequences of populism, a topic still partly neglected in populist research, but increasingly important since populist parties are assuming more stable (and governmental) positions all across Europe. The consequences of populism when in power (i.e. the impact of populists’ success) can be studied on several domains, including: the party system and institutions’ changes, the impact on civil society and media, as well as various policy outcomes. This is what we will also do in this project, inserting the Italian case (a ‘unique’ case in Europe having two populist parties in government) in a comparative European perspective. The project with adopt a methodological triangulation strategy, using qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques and methods (including original surveys, individual and meso-organizational interviews, formalized content analysis of documents, as well as QCA).

External partners: Paolo Graziano (University of Padua), Mattia Zulianello (University of Birmingham)

FUNDING

Various partners (OCIS – Easy Care, Internal SNS Fund for Annual Research – 2018/2019)