Mattia Zulianello

Italy: M. Zulianello. “Populist Radical Right Vs Populist Radical Right in Power: Signalling Ideological Commitment Or Competence?” In: South European Society and Politics online first (2025), pp. 1-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2025.2477092.

Check out our plans for #PSA26:
- Open panels on Italian Politics
- Visuals in populist communication
- Rural politics and EU policies (with @psagreekpol.bsky.social)
- Populism and the international (with @psainter-relations.bsky.social)

‼️ Submit your paper proposals by October 17

We are pleased to invite to you to the book launch of "Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party” (Oxford University Press).

🗓️ October 15th, 15:30
📍 King’s College London (and online!)

Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

I’m delighted to share that my article ‘The “Far Right” Label and the Study of Party Systems: Problems, Limitations – and a Way Out’ has been accepted for publication in a special issue on Sartori’s legacy, in the journal he founded, the Italian Political Science Review. Coming soon & open access!

While our team member @mattiazulianello.bsky.social has just announced winning a prestigious prize (with Mirko Crulli) for the best paper presented at last year’s Conference of the Italian Political Science Association 👏

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⚡️I’m delighted to share that Mirko Crulli and I have been awarded the Annual “Carlo Maria Santoro” Prize for the best paper presented at last year’s Conference of the Italian Political Science Association 🎉

⚡️I’m delighted to share that Mirko Crulli and I have been awarded the Annual “Carlo Maria Santoro” Prize for the best paper presented at last year’s Conference of the Italian Political Science Association 🎉

How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy At best, the continent should expect stagnation, at worst a bond-market rout

The Economist again making the mistake of treating what they call "hard right" as a unitary actor pursuing broadly consistent policies. Yet this is only true (to an extent) about "wokeness" & migration. On everything else they are very divided.

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Populist radical right vs populist radical right in power: signalling ideological commitment or competence? This article investigates the communication strategies of the populist radical right (PRR) focusing on the co-existence of different actors of this party family in power. Methodologically, it carri...

Glad to see that my article “Populist radical right vs populist radical right in power: signalling ideological commitment or competence?” now has page numbers @sespjournal.bsky.social! 📄✨

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SI8VE...

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):

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💡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!