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In person icon Populism and Unpolitics

Political Parties
Populism
Domestic Politics
P383
Ariadna Ripoll Servent
Universität Salzburg
Robert Csehi
Corvinus University of Budapest
Robert Csehi
Corvinus University of Budapest

Thursday 15:45 - 17:30 EEST (28/08/2025) In person icon Building: Law Building, Floor: 3, Room: 6

Abstract

This panel seeks to explore, in different ways and in different contexts, how ‘unpolitics’, a fundamental antipathy to and disinterest in politics itself, interacts with populism. The concept of unpolitics (Taggart 2018) has recently been used and developed to address Conservative politics in the UK (Robinson 2024) and populist actors behaviour in the EU (Zaun and Ripoll Servent, 2024). This panel seeks to build on these to address the wider application of unpolitics to address how we might differentiate between populist actors, to look at strategies of populist actors, and to explain populist responses to international institutions and international crises.

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