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Daphne Halikiopoulou

Daphne Halikiopoulou is associate professor in comparative politics at the University of Reading, focusing on populism, nationalism and the cultural and economic determinants of far-right party support in Europe. She is author (with Sofia Vasilopoulou) of The Golden Dawn’s ‘Nationalist Solution’: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece.

Resisting the seductions of populism

References to ‘the people’ are misleading. Populism is no democratic corrective.

Understanding the far-right populists: focus on their political message

Daphne Halikiopoulou

Conventional wisdom is that the rise of the far-right populists is down to a popular cultural backlash. What’s really happened is they have broadened their support through a civic-nationalist narrative.