The De- and Re-Democratization (DRD) Workgroup of the CEU Democracy Institute, the CEU Department of Political Science, and the Review of Democracy cordially invite you to the inaugural Open Questions Webinar.
Open Questions in the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism is a series of short analytic essays that raise specific politically relevant questions on democracy and authoritarianism which have not been adequately addressed (or answered) by comparative political science.
The event will be livestreamed here.
OQ 1: Again, What Is Populism?
Read the essay here.
Author:
Andreas Schedler is a Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy Institute. He is the Lead Researcher of the De/Re-Democratization Working Group and a Visiting Professor at CEU Vienna. He earned his PhD from the University of Vienna. Before joining the CEU, he was a professor of political science at the Center for Economic Teaching and Research (cide) in Mexico City. A leading comparative scholar of democracy, democratization, and authoritarianism, he has conducted research on democratic consolidation and transition, authoritarian elections, anti-political-establishment parties, political accountability, and organized violence. He is also known for his methodological work on concept analysis and cross-national measurement. His current research focuses on political polarization and the destruction of basic democratic trust.
Discussants:
Daphne Halikiopoulou is a Chair in Comparative Politics at the University of York. She is an expert on the Democracy Institute's OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development project. She is interested in party politics and voting behaviour with a focus on the far right, populism and nationalism in Europe. She is the author of Understanding right-wing populism and what to do about it (with Tim Vlandas), The Golden Dawn’s ‘Nationalist Solution’: explaining the rise of the far right in Greece (with Sofia Vasilopoulou) and numerous articles on European far right parties. Her research appears in the European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Political Science Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Government and Opposition, Environmental Politics and Nations and Nationalism among others. Her article ‘Risks, Costs and Labour Markets: Explaining Cross-National Patterns of Far-Right Party Success in European Parliament Elections’ (with Tim Vlandas) has been awarded Best Paper from the American Political Science Association (APSA).
Kirk Hawkins is a Professor at the Brigham Young University and a convener in the Democracy Institute's OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development project. He teaches comparative politics with an emphasis on Latin America. His current research focuses on political organization and populism, and he directs Team Populism, a global scholarly network studying populism's causes and consequences. Projects include the creation of a global populism dataset, experimental research on populism's rhetorical mechanisms, and the mitigation of populism's negative consequences for society.
Chair:
Matthijs Bogaards is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the Central European University and a Research Affiliate at the Democracy Institute. He joined CEU from Jacobs University Bremen, where he was full professor of Political Science. A graduate from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, Matthijs has studied and worked internationally for the past twenty-five years. He has published widely on political parties and electoral systems in comparative perspective, on measuring democracy, and on the challenge of democracy in divided societies. His current research focuses on terrorism, de-democratization, and consociational forms of power sharing.
Coordinator:
Carlos Meléndez is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Democracy Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science (University of Notre Dame, United States). He is a Professor at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and a former visiting professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales – FLACSO-Ecuador, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, among others. His academic work has been published in prestigious journals like American Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Political Studies, among others. Also, he has contributed to publications edited by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His latest work is Post-partisan political identities. Anti-partisans, Anti-Establishment Identifiers, and Apartisans in Latin America. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). He is a regular columnist in La Tercera in Chile and a partner of 50+1 Political Analysis Group (Peru).