Mattia Zulianello

It’s real! 🤩 So exciting to have the print copies in hand. Just a reminder that the book is also fully open access for everyone to read at the link below. Enjoy!

academic.oup.com/book/60532

Very nice to meet you, printed version of our book... :-)

Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party Abstract. This book investigates why and how several contemporary populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Western Europe adopt the supposedly outdated ma

In the final chapter of our new book “Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party" we provide our comparative conclusions, after discussing party organisation & activism within 4 radical right parties in Europe.

The book is free to download:
academic.oup.com/book/60532

Why Do Party Members Offer Their Commitment? Abstract. This chapter presents the results derived from interviews with active members from the following populist radical right party (PRRP) parties: the

In chapter 5 of our new book “Populist Radical Right Parties in Action” we provide an account of the lived experiences of the active members of four radical right parties in Europe. What motivates them to stay in these organisations?

The book is free to read: academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...

Why Do Party Elites Preserve the Mass Party? Abstract. This chapter evaluates the organizational life within the selected parties from the perspective of party elites, based on 125 interviews with rep

In chapter 4 of our new book “Populist Radical Right Parties in Action” we explain why party elites within the radical right often choose to preserve the mass party organisational model.

Interested? The book is open access (free to read):

academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...

Thank you for your amazing chapter!

Finally got the printed copy! Thanks again @petraguasti.bsky.social and @mattiazulianello.bsky.social for the meticulous editorship!

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

Party Organizations Mapped Abstract. The aim of this chapter is to provide an assessment of the key ideological features and organizational structures of each of the parties selected

Interested in the key ideological features & organizational structures of League for Salvini Premier, Vlaams Belang, Finns Party, & Swiss People’s Party?

See Chapt 3 of our new monograph for Oxford University Press, which is Open Access (free to read):

academic.oup.com/book/60532/c...

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡
‘Populist radical right parties in power focus on valence attributes like reliability, reputation, and achievements to deliver an image of competence’ #populism #PRR

Read #FreeAccess the article by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The mass party is dead, right?

Not so fast.

Our new book, "Populist Radical Right Parties in Action" explores the puzzle of why several of Europe's most prominent populist radical right parties are successfully reviving this "outdated" model.

The book is completely Open Access 👇

We had the pleasure to present our forthcoming book today @rug.nl. @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social talked about the content and Carla Hoetink offered the Dutch perspective

If you can, please join us for our book presentation in Groningen on 13th June. See details below 👇 The book should soon come out online (open access) with Oxford University Press.

ABSTRACT Despite the increasing attention to the relationship between populist radical right (PRR) parties and environmental issues, we still know little about the demand-side of the phenomenon. Are PRR voters less concerned about climate change than the others? If so, what moderates the relationship? We address these questions using recent European Social Survey data (2020–22) from 22 EU-OECD countries. The analysis indicates three main findings. First, PRR voters are clearly less concerned about climate change. Second, this negative correlation holds regardless of several socio-demographic controls. Third, the results highlight the importance of contextual-political factors. Most notably, the gap in climate change attitudes between PRR voters and the others is higher in the countries where PRR parties are more against environmental protection, where the salience of environmental sustainability is higher for both PRR parties and the party system as a whole, and where Green Parties are electorally stronger.

New article!

Not really concerned? Populist radical right voters and climate change by Mirko Crulli & Mattia Zulianello / @mattiazulianello.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

📢In our #NewIssue (29.3)!📢
F. Melito & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social analyse FdI's organizational structure: “a party modeled on the mass party tradition, while adapting to [] personalized politics through the strong leadership of #Meloni”

🆓Read #FreeAccess 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Not really concerned? Populist radical right voters and climate change Despite the increasing attention to the relationship between populist radical right (PRR) parties and environmental issues, we still know little about the demand-side of the phenomenon. Are PRR vot...

🎏 Just published in @environmentalpol.bsky.social with Mirko Crulli.

Are populist radical right voters less concerned about climate change?

✅ Yes — and context matters.

Find out more in our comparative analysis of 22 countries:

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been conditionally accepted in @cpsjournal.bsky.social!

Drawing on membership surveys of the League 🇮🇹 and the Sweden Democrats 🇸🇪, I show that women members are *more active* than men because they are more embedded in party networks.

#OpenAccess in our April 2025 issue -

'The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview' - tinyurl.com/3sa967yn

by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social & @petraguasti.bsky.social

Just accepted @environmentalpol.bsky.social with M. Crulli 🎉

Are 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 voters less concerned about
𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞?

✅ Yes

The gap grows where:

🔸 They have more antagonistic stances
🔸 Green parties are strong
🔸 environmental issues are salient

Full article available soon!

💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡
Brothers of Italy (#FdI) 'is a highly hierarchical organization, blending features of activist and mass parties, under a strong leadership’

🆓Read #FreeAccess the analysis by F. Melito & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ricercatori su democrazia, partiti, antipolitica, politica italiana e tanto altro, Alfio Mastropaolo e' arrivato su BlueSky ed e' da seguire su:
👇

@alfmast.bsky.social

If you study political systems, democracy, political elites, anti-politics & Italian politics, follow Alfio Mastropaolo here...

Open Access 🆓

How do populist radical right parties communicate when in power?

What happens when two of them govern together?
Find out in my new article 👇🏻
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

🆕🆓The article by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social is now #FreeAccess

📥Read and download it here! 👇

📢NEW ARTICLE!📢

Populist radical right vs populist radical right in power: signalling ideological commitment or competence?

Read the article by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social here 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Il 17 maggio parteciperò a Link Media Festival! Ci vediamo alle 10.00 presso il Salone di Rappresentanza della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Riva del Mandracchio, Trieste.

Link all'evento: www.linkfestival.it/tc-events/il...

Glad to see that the article 'The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview'—written with the amazing @petraguasti.bsky.social found a home in Government & Opposition, Volume 60, Issue 2!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 Working on populism? Andrej Zaslove and I are organizing a panel at the 2025 Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (Naples, 4–6 September 2025). Please send your proposals to Panel 8.9: New Directions in Populism Research.

⏰ Deadline: 25 May!
shorturl.at/tdSP6

🚨 Just published @sesp_j

"Populist radical right vs populist radical right in power: Signalling ideological commitment or competence?" by yours truly.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....