Mattia Zulianello

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Are visual strategies distinctive to populism? Francesco Melito & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social examine how political parties’ comms teams strategise, based on original interviews with professionals working directly with Italian parties. Read more: buff.ly/VNboEXh

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

The Loop’s path-breaking Future of Populism series celebrates 100 contributions European Consortium for Political Research

🔮 Since its launch in 2023, @petraguasti.bsky.social & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social's broad-spectrum #FutureofPopulism thread has explored the rise of populist parties worldwide + speculated on how populist movements will develop in the years to come.
📖 Read the story so far: bit.ly/3ZxqIEp

🔮 Making sense of decades of populism in Europe with the PopulisTree Mattia Zulianello introduces the PopulisTree, a new taxonomy and open-access dataset that maps the full diversity of populist parties across Europe over recent decades. Building upon and expanding the...

Celebrating the 100th post in the Future of Populism series 🔮 with a brilliantly written blog by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social 🌳🌲! His PopulisTree brings clarity to decades of research on populism. 🎉 Read the post 👇
theloop.ecpr.eu/making-sense... 🌀

🔮 Making sense of decades of populism in Europe with the PopulisTree Mattia Zulianello introduces the PopulisTree, a new taxonomy and open-access dataset that maps the full diversity of populist parties across Europe over recent decades. Building upon and expanding the...

🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.100
🎉 To celebrate publishing 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ contributions, series co-editor @mattiazulianello.bsky.social introduces the PopulisTree 🌳, a new taxonomy + #OpenAccess dataset that maps the full diversity of populist parties across Europe over recent decades.
👉 bit.ly/4rBtUuw

It will be great to meet some of you in Oxford and/or Dublin before too long! Come and say hello to us if you are there...

Members of our @populisminaction.bsky.social team will be presenting our work at 2 conferences in the near future:

The Political Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference in Oxford (30th March-1st Apr) and the 32nd International Conference of Europeanists in Dublin (16-18 June).

Details below.

Are visual strategies distinctive to populism? Francesco Melito & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social examine how political parties’ comms teams strategise, based on original interviews with professionals working directly with Italian parties. Read more: buff.ly/VNboEXh

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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📢 New article!
What if “populist” political visuals aren’t really populist at all?

Using insider interviews with top party communication strategists in 🇮🇹, we show that emotional and stylistic visuals are used across the board driven by social media logics

Link: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2IXE9...

📝 (5) Populist radical right vs populist radical right in power: signalling ideological commitment or competence?

by @mattiazulianello.bsky.social

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@ecprtheloop.bsky.social invites pitches for the Future of Populism blog series, co-edited by @petraguasti.bsky.social and myself.

Nearly 100 blogs have been published so far.

🔍 Any country, method, approach.

🎓 PhD students & ECRs especially encouraged.

✍️ Submit via The Loop 👉 lnkd.in/ghAy6s96

🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset.

🔗 populistree.org

📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Back at Bologna's Alma Mater today to discuss the book below with Politics postgrads... Looking forward to it....

The book is open access -free to read and download. See link below.

📘 SESP #ArticleCollections
🔥 The Radical Right in Southern Europe

📄 21 #FreeAccess Articles
✨ introduction by N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social

🔍 Explore the collection here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...

Great systematic taxonomy classifying populist actors and complementing the PopuList.

Theoretically sophisticated, based on great knowledge of populism in Europe and written in a very accessible style. Good work all round, Mattia...

Thank you, Daniele!

Thank you so much, Ben! I hope you are well.

This is SUCH a useful article/website/database that I will be using in my teaching & research. Finally a datasource that acknowledges the important fact that not all populist parties clearly fit on the left or the right - so happy to have data on valence, agrarian and regionalist populist parties.

This one is big. Great overview of the various currents within the populist family. Plus, it provides a rough template that one could use with regards to other ideological families. My immediate thought is that a taxonomy of the rapidly growing radical right would be especially compelling.

Thank you! In the PopulisTree you can find all the populist radical right parties :)

🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset.

🔗 populistree.org

📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Frontiers | Beyond the “Far Right”: Revisiting the Radical–Extreme Distinction The field of far-right studies has seen significant growth and diversification in recent years, with research increasingly relying on umbrella concepts such ...

⚡ Call for Papers!

For our Special Issue “Beyond the Far Right? Revisiting the Radical–Extreme Distinction”, co-edited with @gippone.bsky.social, Federico Taddei and Francesco Piacentini

📅 Deadlines

• Manuscript summary: 24 Feb 2026
• Full paper: 14 Jun 2026

shorturl.at/mGONv

📚 SESP #ArticleCollections 🗳️➡️
The #RadicalRight in Southern Europe

2⃣1⃣ #FreeAccess Articles
🎯Introduction by N. Conti, @bonniefield.bsky.social and
@mattiazulianello.bsky.social

Read and download here ⬇️
tandfonline.com/journals/fse...

Perceptions of populist radical right mainstreaming as a threat to democracy: evidence from Italian voters This paper explores a little-studied side of populist radical right (PRR) mainstreaming: if and to what extent these parties are considered to be legitimate democratic players by voters. Using surv...

Antonella Seddone & @mattiazulianello.bsky.social explore populist radical right (PRR) mainstreaming -- if and to what extent these parties are considered to be legitimate democratic players by voters -- using survey data from Italy. Currently free access
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Take a look at recent @sespjournal.bsky.social articles on populism. On Italy, @mattiazulianello.bsky.social investigates the communication strategies of the populist radical right parties that govern together. Currently free access doi.org/10.1080/1360...

📚 In our #Collection on The #RadicalRight in Southern Europe

Perceptions of populist radical right mainstreaming as a threat to democracy: evidence from Italian voters

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

We will present our book 'Populist Radical Right Parties in Action: The Survival of the Mass Party' (Oxford UP) at Queen Mary University of London on Thursday, November 20th, 5-6:30pm GMT. Corina Lacatus will discuss, and there will be a reception. Register via 👉 tinyurl.com/382xbuy5

🍎🍊 The “far right” is often treated as a single family—but it isn’t.

🪄 The radical right is increasingly entering mainstream politics, while the extreme right remains isolated.

This distinction matters for understanding today’s party systems.

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

The deadline for #PSA26 is tomorrow! Our group @psa-italian.bsky.social is accepting proposals on:

🇮🇹 Italian politics
🖼️ Visual populism - collab with @populismpsa.bsky.social
🚜 Rural politics - with @psagreekpol.bsky.social
🌐 Populism & IR - with @psainter-relations.bsky.social

Direct links below:

This is tomorrow and you can still sign up to attend online!

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.