Are populist parties bad for representative democracy or are they filling a representative gap? While it has been … substantive representation, this article opens up the dimensions in which populist parties might challenge or aid democratic … representation. It then places the articles in the Special Issue ‘Populist Representation of, by and for the People?’ along these …

The paper points the characterization of different logics of political representation present at national conferences … representative dynamic in national councils and conferences, one realizes that the main theoretical approaches of representation used … Parliaments and Executive in regard to representation and responsiveness. …

transformation of Jobbik's nativist appeal, and an increasing reliance on populism. The trend is not uniform; Jobbik relies on … nativism as a function of targeting party identifiers or the general electorate in specific media outlets. Our findings show …

predominantly observable in state elections, though attacks that receive high media coverage increase the AfD vote share in Federal … migration. Exploiting news reports, we find that successful attacks receive more media coverage from local and regional …

Although the application of the conceptual and analytical framework of economics to the study of populism is still in …. When analyzing populism, economists face two methodological hurdles: lack of consensus and clarity about its definition and … analysis of populism draws concepts from other social sciences such political theory, sociology, history and social psychology. …

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by … populism as well. In this chapter, we ask whether elements of public deliberation may be a means to reasonably responding to …

Representative democracy gives voters the right to influence who governs but its influence on policy making is only … representatives as normal and as normatively superior. The nominal association of popular decision making and populism has …

their mainstream counterparts in their expectations about democracy but correspond more closely to non-voters regarding (dis …-)satisfaction with democracy. Second, non-voters and populist voters seem to reject mainstream democratic politics in distinct ways …