Publications 2019*

Publications 2019*

Agnieszka Stepinska (Editor), Nicoleta Corbu & Peter Maurer (Guest Editors). Populism and the Media across Europe. Central European Journal of Communication Vol 12 2(23) 2019. Special Issue. 

Publications 2018

Publications 2018

Bergmann, E (2018). Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bos, Linda, Christian Schemer, Nicoleta Corbu, Michael Hameleers, Ioannis Andreadis, Anne Schulz, Desirée Schmuck, Carsten Reinemann and Nayla Fawzi (under review) The effects of populism as a social identity frame. Evidence from a 15-country comparative experiment . Submitted to special issue of European Journal of Political Research on “The Political Psychology of Populism”.

Hameleers, M., Bos, L., Fawzi, N., Reinemann, C., Andreadis, I., Corbu, N., Schemer, C., Sheafer, T., Aalberg, T., Axelsson, S., Balas, D. C., Berganza, R. Cremonesi, C., Dahlberg, S., Hess, A., Kartsounidou, E., Kasprowicz, D., Negrea-Busuioc, E., Ringdal, S., Salgado, S., Sanders, K., Schmuck, D., Schulz, A., Stepinska, A. M., Suiter, J., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., & Weiss, N. (2018). Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Participation in 16 European Countries.  International Journal of Press Politics 39(1): 23(4): 517-538.

Peicheva D., Raycheva L., Milenkova V., Manov B. (2018). Transformations in Mass Society and Emergent Properties of Human Behavior in Contemporary Media Space. In: Karwowski W., Ahram T. (Eds.) Intelligent Human Systems Integration. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2018): Integrating People and Intelligent Systems, January 7-9, 2018, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Springer: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing.

Sorensen, Lone, Populist Communication in the New Media Environment: A Cross-Regional Comparative Perspective (April 2018). Palgrave Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 48-48, 2018. Available at SSRN or here.

Szabó G, Norocel OC & Bene M (iFirst 2018) Media Visibility and Inclusion of Radical Right Populism in Hungary and Romania: A Discursive Opportunity Approach. Problems of Post-Communism. 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2018.1460208

Tomov M., Raycheva L (2018) Populist Approach to Migration in the Contemporary Media Ecosystem. In: Rhetoric and Communications E-journal, Issue 33, March 2018.


Publications 2017

Publications 2017

Andreadis, I and Stavrakakis, Y. (2017), "European Populist Parties in Government: How Well are Voters Represented? Evidence from Greece" Swiss Political Science Review or a pre-review version

Bergmann, E (2017). Nordic Nationalism and Right-Wing Populist Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Bos, L., Sheets, P. H., Boomgaarden, H. G. The Role of Implicit Attitudes in Populist Radical Right Support. Political Psychology 39(1): 69-87.

Dragićević Šešić, M. & Vickery J. (eds) (2017) Cultural policy in times of rising populism, KPY Cultural Policy and Management Yearbook, Istanbul Bilgi University Press. English edition: ISBN 978-605-399-514-2

De Cleen, Benjamin & Stavrakakis, Yannis (2017) Distinctions and Articulations. A Discourse-Theoretical Framework for the Study of Populism and Nationalism. Javnost – The Public 24(4): 301-319.

De Cleen, Benjamin & Stavrakakis, Yannis (eds.) (2017) Special issue of Javnost – The Public 24(4) on Populism and Nationalism: Constructing and Representing ‘The People’ as Underdog and as Nation

Engesser, Sven, Fawzi, Nayla & Larsson, Anders Olof (2017). Populist Online Communication: Introduction to the Special Issue. Information, Communication and Society, 29(9), 1279-1292.

Hameleers, M., & Schmuck, D. (2017). It’s Us against Them: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Messages Communicated via Social Media. Information, Communication & Society20(9), 1425-1444. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1328523  

Hameleers, M., Bos, L., De Vreese, C. H. Shoot the messenger? The media’s role in framing populist attributions of blame. Journalism March: 1-20. DOI: 10.1177/1464884917698170

Hameleers, M., Bos, L., De Vreese, C. H. (2017). “They did it”: The effects of emotionalized blame attribution as a populist communication strategy. Communication Research44(6), 870-900.

Hameleers, M., Bos, L., De Vreese, C. H. (2017). The appeal of media populism: The media preferences of citizens with populist attitudes. Mass Communication & Society20(4), 481-504.

Heiss, R., & Matthes, J. (2017). Who “likes” populists? Characteristics of adolescents following right-wing populist actors on Facebook. Information, Communication & Society20(9), 1408-1424.

Matkevičienė, Renata. (2017) How media constructs political corruption: case of the Internet media reaction to the political corruption scandal during election campaign to the Parliament of Lithuania in 2016. Political Preferences, 14/2017. P. 35-46. DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.5216164 ; journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PP

Matthes J., & Schmuck, D. (2017). The effects of anti-immigrant right-wing populist ads on implicit and explicit attitudes: A moderated mediation model. Communication Research, 44(4), 556-581.

Müller, P., Schemer, C., Wettstein, M., Schulz, A., Wirz, D. S., Engesser, S., & Wirth, W. (2017). The Differential Effects of News Coverage on Public Opinion about Populism: Evidence from a Panel Study in four European Countries. Journal of Communication. First published 31 October 2017.

Negrea-Busuioc, E., Corbu, N. (2017), ’Does Economy Really Matter?’ People’s Evaluations of the Economy and the Success of Populist Parties in Europe, in Bârgăoanu, A., Buturoiu, R., Radu, L.(eds.). Why Europe? Narratives and Counter-Narratives of European Integration,  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 203-223.

Norocel OC, Szabó G & Bene M (2017) Integration or Isolation? Mapping Out the Position of Radical Right Media in the Public Sphere. International Journal of Communication 11: 3764-3788.

PeichevaD., RaychevaL. (2017) Framing Political Populism in Contemporary Media Ecosystem. European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, ISSN 2285-4916 ISSN-L 2285-4916, Volume 6, Issue No.4 (October 2017), pp. 1-13, FSP, University of Bucharest, openly accessible online at: https://sites.google.com/a/fspub.unibuc.ro/european-quarterly-of-political-attitudes-and-mentalities

Raycheva L., Peicheva D. (2017) Populism in Bulgaria between Politicization of Media and Mediatization of Politics.Mediatizations Studies. 1(1): 69-81.

Raycheva L. (2017). Bulgaria: The Migrant Influx. In: Barlai Melani, Fähnrich Birte, Griesler Christina, Rhomberg Markus (eds.) The Migrant Crisis: European Perspectives and National Discourses. Zurich: Lit Verlag GmbH&Co. KG Wien: 79-92.

Raycheva L. & Suminas Andrius (2017) A Negative Touch in Posters and Spots. In: Holtz-Bacha ChristinaEdoardoNovelliKevin Rafter (eds.) Political Advertising in the 2014 European Parliament Elections. Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 80-96. eBook ISBN 978-1-137-56981-3, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56981-3, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-137-56980-6

Schmuck, D., & Matthes, J. (2017). Effects of economic and symbolic threat appeals in right-wing populist advertising on anti-immigrant attitudes: The impact of textual and visual appeals. Political Communication, 34(4): 607-626.

Schmuck, D., Matthes, J., & Paul, F. (2017). Negative stereotypical portrayals of Muslims in right-wing populist campaigns: Perceived discrimination, social identity threats, and hostility among young Muslim adults. Journal of Communication, 67(4),:610-634.

Schulz, A., Müller, P., Schemer, C., Wirz, D. S., Wettstein, M., & Wirth, W. (2017). Measuring populist attitudes on three dimensions. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. First published 14 February 2017.


Publications 2016

Publications 2016

Aleknonis, Gintaras, Matkevičienė, Renata. (2016) Populism in Lithuania: Defining the research tradition. Baltic Journal of Law & Politics. 9:1 (2016): 26-48. DOI: 10.1515/bjlp-2016-0002

Marquart, F., & Matthes, J. (2016). Campaigning subtle exclusionism: The effects of right-wing populist positive ads on attitudes toward foreigners in Austria. Studies in Communication | Media, 5(2), 223-239.

Matthes, J., Marquart, F., Arendt, F., & Wonneberger, A. (2016). The selective avoidance of threat appeals in right-wing populist political ads: An implicit cognition approach using eye-tracking methodology. In P. Verlegh, H. Voorveld, & M. Eisend (Eds.), Advances in Advertising Research, Vol. VI. The Digital, the Classic, the Subtle, and the Alternative (pp. 135-147). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler

Nikolić, Mirjana (2016) "Sensationalism and populism vs. Social Responsibility of the Electronic Media ", Media Dialogues No. 24, Podgorica, ISSN 1800 7074

Norocel OC (2016) Disciplinary Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity in Populist Radical Right Media in Romania. Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power 23(2): 247-264.

Sheets, P. H., Bos, L., Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016) Media cues and support for right-wing populist parties. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 28(3).


Publications 2015

Publications 2015

Arendt, F., Marquart, F., & Matthes, J. (2015). Effects of right-wing populist political advertising on implicit and explicit stereotypes. Journal of Media Psychology, available as advance access.

Bergmann, E (2015). ‘Populism in Iceland: Has the Progressive Party turned populist?’ Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. Vol. 11(1), 33-54

Bobba, G. & Seddone, A. (2015). Issues without owners, candidates without ownership. An analysis of 2013 Italian general election campaign. Quaderni di scienza politica, 22(1), pp. 37-60.

Bobba, G. & McDonnell, D. (2015). A Strong and Enduring Market for Populism. In H. Kriesi & T. S. Pappas (Eds.), European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (pp. 163-179). Colchester: ECPR Press .

Matthes J., & Schmuck, D. (2015). The effects of anti-immigrant right-wing populist ads on implicit and explicit attitudes: A moderated mediation model. Communication Research, available as advance access.

Kübler, D., Christmann, A., Hasler, K., Marcinkowski, F., & Schemer, C. (2015). New Regionalism: Too Complex for the Media Watchdog? Media reporting and citizens' perception of democratic legitimacy in four European metropolitan areas. Urban Affairs Review, 51(5), 676-707.

Mustapić, M., Balabanić, I., Plenković, M. (2015). Political news coverage of the 2015 election campaign in Croatia: populism and media. In: Salgado, S. (with contributions of Balabanic, I., Garcia-Luengo, O., Mustapic, M., Papathanassopoulos, S., Stępińska, A., Suiter, J.) (2015). Election news in six European countries: what is covered and how? – Study for research project  (ICS working paper)

Norocel OC (2015) The Panoptic Performance of Masculinity for the Romanian Ethno-Nationalist Project: Disciplinary Intersections in Populist Radical Right Print Media. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt) 2(1-2): 143-156.

Schmuck, D., & Matthes, J. (2015). How anti-immigrant right-wing populist advertisements affect young voters: Symbolic threats, economic threats, and the moderating role of education. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(10), 1577-1599.

Schulz, A., Müller, P., Wirz, D., Wettstein, M., Wirth, W., & Schemer, C. (2015, August). Measuring populist attitudes on three dimensions. ECPR General Conference, August 26-29, 2015, Montréal.


Publications 2014

Publications 2014

G. Aleknonis (2014), European Parliament Elections in Lithuania: Populist Competition in the Shadow of the Presidential Vote, Political Preferences, vol. 9, p. 39-56.

Bobba, G. & Seddone, A. (2014). L’antipolitica in agenda. Temi e leader sui media mainstream nella campagna elettorale 2013 (Anti-politics on the agenda. Topics and leaders of the 2013 election campaign in the mainstream media coverage). Comunicazione politica, 15(1), 115-132.

Bos, L., Brants, K. L. K. (2014). Populist rhetoric in politics and media: a longitudinal study of the Netherlands. European Journal of Communication.  

Bos, L., Brants, K. L. K. (2014) Wilders en de golf van het populisme [Wilders and the wave of populism], Chapter 10, in: Van Praag, P., Brants, K. L. K. (ed.) Media, Macht en Politiek [Media, Power and Politics]. Diemen: AMB 

Hobeika, A., & Villeneuve, G. (2014). National Front themes and the agenda of the French press (2006-2013) in Populist Politics and the media, London : Counterpoint

Stavrakakis, Y. (2014). The return of 'the people': Populism and anti-populism in the shadow of the European crisis, Constellations, 21:4, 505-517.

Stavrakakis, Y. & Katsambekis, G. (2014). Left-wing populism in the European periphery: The case of SYRIZA, Journal of Political Ideologies, 19:2, 119-142.

Stavrakakis, Y. (2014). The European populist challenge, Annals of the Croatian Political Science Association, 10:1, 25-39.