Working Paper on ‘Citizens’ Reactions to Populism in Europe: How do target groups respond to the populist challenge?’

This Working Paper for the DEMOS project explores the reactions of target groups to populist discourse through focus groups in five European countries and performs a quantitative analysis of Facebook data in eight European countries. It demonstrates the ways in which populist discourse and policies affect target groups including migrants, ethnic or religious minorities, academics, and LGBTIQ+ groups.

Author(s):

Osman Şahin (Glasgow Caledonian University, GCU), Federico Vegetti (University of Turin, UNITO), Umut Korkut (GCU), Giuliano Bobba (UNITO), Moreno Mancosu (UNITO), and Antonella Seddone (UNITO), Agnieszka Stępińska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, AMU), Samuel Bennett (AMU), Artur Lipiński (AMU), Dimitri Sotiropoulos, Manos Tsatsanis, Alexia Mitsikostas (Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, ELIAMEP), Zsuzsanna Árendás, Vera Messing (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest), Nicolas Hubé, and Martin Baloge (University of Lorraine, UL).