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Library

A database of research on populism, built for literature reviews.

How to cite the Library

Rzazade, Khayyam, ed. 2026–. PopuliVerse Library. https://populiverse.com/library/. Accessed [the date of your visit].

How PopuliVerse Library Is Built

How It Is Organised

Entries are tagged on two axes, where their own text supports it. The first says how the work defines populism. The second says what populism is studied with. Each name below opens the Library with that filter.

Approaches to Populism

  • Ideational (Mudde)
  • Discursive (Laclau, the Essex school)
  • Politico-Strategic (Weyland)
  • Performative or Stylistic (Moffitt)
  • Socio-Cultural (Ostiguy)
  • Economic or Structural
  • Measurement and Methods: how populism is measured
  • Other or Multiple

Populism and…

  • Foreign Policy
  • Defence and Security
  • The International Sphere: the EU, international organisations, multilateralism
  • Parties, Leaders and Movements: the supply side
  • Voters and Attitudes: the demand side
  • Populists in Government
  • Spatial Populism: geography, urban-rural divides, regions
  • Economy and Welfare
  • Media and Communication
  • Gender
  • Religion
  • Migration
  • Democracy and Institutions
  • Other

Entries can also be filtered by region, country, method, type of publication, year, journal and open access.

What Goes In

Works on populism, in English. Journal articles, books and book reviews. Chapters and other kinds of work enter only when they have proved significant over time. The rule that anyone can check is simple. “Populism” or “populist” is in the title, or in the abstract when there is one.

Works enter in two ways. They come from the reference lists of handbooks and review articles, and from a search of the open catalogue OpenAlex by title.

From the search, a piece in a journal enters when Scopus covered the journal in the year of the work. There is no citation threshold. Every DOI is checked in a second catalogue, Crossref.

The Library is not complete. If a work is missing or wrongly tagged, or if you see any other problem, tell the editor: editor@populiverse.com

How the Tags Are Given

A tag is given only when the work’s own title or abstract supports it. The wordings that count are public, with the codebook, as a citable dataset: PopuliVerse Library: The Tagging Rules, on Zenodo. Nothing is guessed. A missing tag means “not stated in the title or the abstract”, not “does not apply”.

The tags are given by a script, not by hand. The editor checks them at random, not every work.

What Each Entry Gives You

The full citation, the abstract when the publisher provides one, a link to the DOI or to an open-access copy, the tags, and a BibTeX reference in one click. The works shown can be downloaded as a BibTeX or a CSV file. PopuliVerse links to papers. It does not host them.

If you use the Library in your research or teaching, please cite it. The reference stands at the top of this page. Cite the works themselves as usual, as each entry gives its reference and its BibTeX.

Suggest a Paper

Is something missing? Send the title or the DOI, with one line on why it belongs here, to the editor: editor@populiverse.com

The Zotero Group

The Library lives in a public Zotero group, “PopuliVerse Library”. Anyone can read it and use it in their own Zotero. Scholars who contribute regularly are invited to join it as editors.

Open the PopuliVerse Library on Zotero

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