DEMOS participates at CEU Comparative Populism Project Conference

 

DEMOS will take part in the Central European University’s Comparative Populism Project closing conference, on June 20-22 in Budapest. The conference brings renowned scholars and stakeholders to discuss issues and opportunities for research on populism. On the last day, the conference will showcase DEMOS with presentations from researchers and project leader of the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which coordinates DEMOS in partnership with 14 other European institutions. Check out the preliminary program below.

Comparative Populism Project - Intellectual Themes Initiative (ITI) - Closing Conference
Nádor u. 15, 1051, Budapest, Hungary
June 20-22

2:00 - 3:30 - Opening of the Event - Welcome

The Guardian - New Populism Series (Mark Rice-Oxley, The Guardian)

Presentation of the project with first findings (Erin Jenne. CEU)

Mitigating Populism’s Negative Consequences (Jennifer McCoy, GSU)

Results of the ESS Meeting (Levente Littvay / Monica Ferrin)

 

Alexander Wuttke - When the Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes

Anne Schulz - Populist attitudes as a multi-dimensional concept: What do we learn when we disaggregate its components?

Ben Stanley - Dealing with the incumbency problem: designing a pilot study to improve populist attitude questions

 

Christoph Nguyen - What Comes First? Anger, Anxiety, Or Populism? – On The Dynamic Relationship Between Anger, Anxiety, And Support For Right Wing- Wing Populist Parties

Alberto Stefanelli - Boundaries of solidarity: testing the welfare conditionality of populist voters

Zsolt Enyedi - The Ideological Profile of Populist Parties in Europe

 

4:30 - 6:00 - Scientific Panel 3

Eliza Hawkins - Tracking audience emotional reactions to populist videos

Gabriella Szabó (DEMOS researcher) - Do right wing populist media outlets perform well in the algorithmic publics? The Hungarian case.

Erin Jenne - Dueling Sovereign Imaginaries in an Age of Crisis

 

9:00 - 10:15 Scientific Panel 4

Levente Littvay - The Thermostatic Model of Populist Attitudes

Peter Kreko - Can “tribalism” be a valid concept of describing polarisation in contemporary political systems?

Jennifer McCoy - How Populism and Affective Polarization Influence Support for Democratic Norms: Partisan Differences in the U.S.

 

 

11:30 - 1:00 Scientific Pantel 5

Ryan Carlin - Acting Like a Populist: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study of Blame Frames and Minority Source Cues

Daniel Allington - Populism on the British Left

Zsolt Boda (DEMOS project leader) - When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualizing Populism in Policy Making