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April 4-8, 2022: Nationalism and Media, Antwerpen, Belgium Presentation title: Nationalist Populism in Times of Pandemic: Using Social Media to Frame Elites as Enemies of the Nation September 1-10: Workshop on Populism, New York, USA Presentation title: Politics in the Vicinity of War. The New Face of Populist Nationalism in (Eastern) Europe – with a […]

The Project Director is Mihnea S. STOICA, PhD. Mihnea S. STOICA is a lecturer at the Department of Communication, Public Relations and Advertising of the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FSPAC), Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His main research interests revolve around political communication, with a special focus on populism, European politics and […]

The current project aims to address the topic of populist vulnerability by exploring perceptions related to politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the war in Ukraine. This will be done by measuring the propensity towards accepting and multiplying populist narratives. The main objectives of the current project are: 1. To conceptualize […]