PopuliVerse Monitor 2026/1
September 2026
- Period covered
- 1 to 30 September 2026
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- Version 1.3
- Founder and editor
- Khayyam Rzazade
- Published
- 2 October 2026
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The month in brief
September was a month of elections. In Sweden the opposition won a narrow majority, the Sweden Democrats lost seats, and the prime minister whom they had supported said that he would resign. In Germany the Alternative for Germany won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8 per cent, without a majority of its own. In Russia the main Kremlin party took 349 of the 450 seats in a vote from which genuine opposition was excluded. Swiss voters rejected a neutrality initiative backed by the Swiss People’s Party.
Governments led by actors on the Monitor’s watchlist acted at home and abroad. Italy’s government limited by decree the share of pupils with little Italian in a classroom and banned face veils in schools. Nicaragua’s parliament passed, in a first vote, a reform that bars opposition parties from elections. Chile’s government held no official event on the anniversary of the 1973 coup. The United States struck Iranian tankers and later met Iranian officials, sent envoys to Moscow and Kyiv, signed an agreement on Greenland, received China’s president, banned Canadian goods and withdrew its last troops from Iraq. Israel closed the British consulate in East Jerusalem and opened an embassy in Slovenia.
In Asia-Pacific and in Sub-Saharan Africa nothing met the Monitor’s rules.
Around the world
Europe
Sweden: the opposition wins the election, and the Sweden Democrats lose seats
Sweden elected a new parliament on 13 September. The complete count of 17 September gave the four opposition parties 176 of the 349 seats. The four parties that form or support the outgoing government won 173. The Sweden Democrats took 62 seats, 11 fewer than before, and fell to third place behind the Moderates of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Kristersson said that he would resign. He led a coalition of three centre-right parties. Its majority relied on outside support from the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party. Before the election he had held out the prospect of cabinet seats for them if the governing side won. The Social Democrats of the opposition leader, Magdalena Andersson, remain the biggest party with 99 seats, eight fewer. It is not clear what government comes next. The Centre Party sided with the left because it does not want to govern with the Sweden Democrats.
Germany: the AfD wins the state election in Saxony-Anhalt
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the election to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September. Preliminary figures gave it 43.8 per cent of the vote and 39 seats. It has no majority of its own. The Christian Democrats (CDU) of the state premier, Sven Schulze, fell from 37.1 to 17.2 per cent and 15 seats. The Social Democrats, the Greens and The Left (a borderline case in The PopuList) won eight seats each, and the BSW party five. The state’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as confirmed right-wing extremist. The other parties had ruled out cooperation with the AfD. Its top candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, called the result a mandate to form a government. He said that a new election would be an option if no government can be formed. Schulze’s cabinet stays in office as caretaker until a new premier is elected.
Russia: United Russia wins 349 of the 450 seats in the State Duma
Russia elected the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, from 18 to 20 September. Full results came on 25 September. United Russia, the main Kremlin party, won 349 of the 450 seats, more than three quarters and a record. Smaller parties that vote with the Kremlin on all key issues won 97 seats. The election commission put turnout at nearly 60 per cent of 111 million eligible voters. It was the first parliamentary election since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. People also voted in Crimea and in four Ukrainian regions that Russia annexed. Kyiv called this voting illegal. Genuine opposition parties and candidates were excluded, AP reports. Yabloko, the only registered party that publicly criticised the war, was removed from the ballot by the Supreme Court in August. President Vladimir Putin said that the result showed public support for his policies.
Switzerland: voters reject the neutrality initiative backed by the Swiss People’s Party
On 27 September Swiss voters rejected a proposal to write a strict definition of neutrality into the constitution. All cantons and about 70 per cent of voters said no. Under the proposal Switzerland could not join or cooperate with any military or defence alliance unless it was attacked. It could join sanctions only if the United Nations had approved them. The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) backed the proposal. It says that Switzerland’s traditional position was eroded when the government imposed sanctions on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. The government and most other parties opposed the proposal. The foreign minister, Ignazio Cassis, said that the result is not a vote against neutrality and that Switzerland can go on deciding on sanctions case by case. The SVP accepted the defeat. Its lawmaker Lukas Reimann said that the party would become active again if the government strayed from neutrality.
- United Kingdom. On 9 September London’s Metropolitan Police opened a criminal investigation into allegations that Reform UK broke the rules against foreign donations. An undercover report by Channel 4 had shown two party officials who appeared to discuss how money from a supposed American donor could be passed through his son in Britain. The party denies wrongdoing and suspended the two officials. (AP, 9 September, copy of WRAL; AP)
- France. On 27 September leaders of the National Rally said that the party and its allies had won enough seats in the Senate election to form a group of their own for the first time. A group needs ten senators. (Reuters, 27 September, copy of ThePrint)
- Russia and Germany. On 28 September a decree of President Vladimir Putin placed the Russian business of the German retailer Metro under temporary administration. Before that, Germany had blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport and had closed a Russian consulate and a Russian cultural centre. Russia denied the allegation and closed the German consulate in St Petersburg. (AP, 28 September, copy of WRAL; AP)
North America
United States and Iran: strikes on tankers, then a first meeting at the United Nations
On 5 September United States forces struck three Iranian oil tankers. US Central Command said that the tankers were linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and that the Guard had fired missiles at American warships and missed. Two tankers were disabled, off Kharg Island and near Jask. A third was destroyed in the Gulf of Oman. The war began on 28 February with attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran. A ceasefire brokered in June did not last. Iran keeps its hold on the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States blockades Iranian ports. On 22 September President Donald Trump said that his envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, had met Iranian officials for about three hours on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The talks ran through mediators. Trump called it “a very good meeting”.
United States, Russia and Ukraine: envoys in Moscow and Kyiv; a sanctions law is signed
On 5 September the US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held three hours of talks with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. On 6 September they met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. It was their first visit to Kyiv as negotiators. The Kremlin said it would pause strikes on Kyiv until 7 September. Zelenskyy said Ukraine would halt strikes on Moscow. The two sides remain far apart. Russia demands that Ukraine withdraw from the towns it still holds in the Donbas region. Kyiv refuses. On 18 September Trump signed a law on sanctions against Russia. It targets Russia’s energy and defence industries and the “shadow fleet”, the tankers that get around existing sanctions. It also lets the president put tariffs of up to 100 per cent on the five biggest importers of Russian oil or gas. By 22 September Trump had not used these powers.
United States, Denmark and Greenland: a security agreement is signed
On 22 September President Donald Trump, Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, and Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, signed a security agreement at the United Nations in New York. It allows a larger US military presence on Greenland. Greenland remains Danish territory. Two new military sites open, at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig. The United States may set up a “Golden Dome” missile defence system on the island, and its aircraft and ships get broad access. States outside NATO may not set up military installations there. The agreement amends the defence treaty of 1951 and has no end date. In January Trump had refused to rule out military or economic force to acquire Greenland. This set off a crisis inside NATO, and months of negotiations followed. Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark with 57,000 people. The parliaments of Denmark and Greenland must still approve it.
United States and China: tariff cuts and a dialogue on artificial intelligence
China’s president, Xi Jinping, made a state visit to Washington from 23 to 25 September. After the visit both countries said that they had agreed to cut tariffs on 30 billion dollars of goods in each direction. The cuts apply to US exports such as farm goods, wood and cosmetics, and to US imports such as small appliances and toys. The two sides also agreed to hold a dialogue on the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and to set up a channel of communication for incidents linked to it. Both countries said that the leaders agreed that Iran should keep its commitment not to develop nuclear weapons. Before the visit the two countries had extended their trade truce by two months. It had been due to end on 10 November. The next round of the AI dialogue is set for November.
United States and Canada: import bans in the trade war
On 8 September the United States banned the import of a wide range of Canadian alcoholic drinks, motorcycles and dairy products. The bans were set to take effect on 29 September. The United States also added cheese products and some paper, aluminium, wood and furniture products to the goods under a tariff of 50 per cent. In August it had put tariffs of 50 per cent on about 20 billion dollars of Canadian goods, after several rounds of talks had collapsed. Canada answered with tariffs of 15 to 50 per cent on 20 billion dollars of US goods. They took effect on 8 September. Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, urged a further shift away from the country’s biggest trading partner. A US official said that the threat to raise tariffs on Canadian cars from 25 to 50 per cent on 1 January still stands.
United States and Iraq: the last American troops leave
On 30 September the US military announced that all American troops had left Iraq. The last soldiers left an air base in Irbil, in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north. This ends a 12-year mission against the Islamic State group. The Pentagon said that the United States would go on giving Iraq targeted training and intelligence support. In 2024 Washington and Baghdad had agreed to wind the mission down, with 30 September as the deadline. The last bases came under regular attack after the United States and Israel began their war against Iran on 28 February. Iran-backed militias fired on US troops, and the United States struck the militias. Iraq’s prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, said that Iraqi forces would go on fighting the Islamic State group. Officials in the Kurdish region voiced concern, above all about the removal of US air defence systems.
- United States and Venezuela. On 22 September Trump met Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, at a reception in New York. It was their first meeting since US forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January. (Reuters, 22 September, copy of LBC; AP, 22 September, copy of WSOC-TV)
- United States. On 18 September Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. On 24 September a federal judge, Timothy Kelly, ordered the government to restore their access at once. (AFP, 24 September, copy of Citizen Digital)
- United States. On 2 September a federal judge in Maryland, Deborah Boardman, blocked Trump’s executive order of 6 August, which limits who gets US citizenship by birth. (Reuters, 2 September, copy of People News; Reuters)
Latin America
Nicaragua: a reform that bars opposition parties from elections passes its first vote
On 1 September Nicaragua’s National Assembly passed a constitutional reform in the first of two votes. The reform bans opposition parties from taking part in elections. It lengthens the presidential term from six to seven years. The terms of other elected officials and of the heads of the army and the police also become seven years. The co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, backed the reform. On 19 July Ortega had said in public that there would be no more elections in Nicaragua, to stop the opposition from taking the government again. Several Central American countries, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile criticised this, and Panama withdrew its ambassador. An earlier reform had made Murillo, then vice president, co-president and had moved the presidential election from the end of 2026 to late 2027. Constitutional changes need two separate legislative sessions. Murillo said that the second vote starts on 18 January.
Nicaragua: hearings in its case against Germany at the International Court of Justice
From 7 September the International Court of Justice in The Hague held four days of hearings in the case that the government of Daniel Ortega has brought against Germany. On 8 September Nicaragua accused Germany of several violations of international law. It argued that Germany is complicit in what Nicaragua calls genocide in Gaza, because of its support for Israel, above all its arms shipments. Nicaragua bases the case on the Genocide Convention of 1948. Germany asks the court to throw the case out. It says that the judges have no jurisdiction and that Nicaragua has no case. Israel denies the accusation of genocide. The court had already rejected Nicaragua’s request for emergency measures, such as a stop to German arms exports. It can now end the case or go on to examine it in detail. A ruling takes about six months on average.
Chile: no official event on the anniversary of the 1973 coup
For the first time since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990, the government held no official event on 11 September to mark the anniversary of the military coup of 1973. President José Antonio Kast (populist radical right: Díaz, Rovira Kaltwasser and Zanotti 2023) defended the decision in a speech in the Los Ríos region on the same day. It was the 53rd anniversary of the coup led by Augusto Pinochet against President Salvador Allende. The dictatorship lasted until 1990 and left more than 3,200 people dead or disappeared. Thousands of people marched to remember the victims. Protesters threw stones and sticks, and police used tear gas and water cannon. The security minister, Martín Arrau, counted 198 incidents of violence on 10 and 11 September, 34 per cent fewer than in 2025, and 284 arrests, 80 per cent more.
Chile and Argentina: Kast backs Argentina’s claim to the Malvinas; a shipping route to the islands is planned
On 3 September President José Antonio Kast (populist radical right: Díaz, Rovira Kaltwasser and Zanotti 2023) received Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, at La Moneda palace in Santiago. Kast declared Chile’s support for Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Malvinas (Falkland Islands). The meeting came during a dispute over the Strait of Magellan. The chief of Argentina’s air force had called the strait a matter of Argentine sovereignty. Chile’s foreign minister, Francisco Pérez Mackenna, answered that it is Chilean beyond dispute. On 28 September business representatives of the Falkland Islands Government came to Punta Arenas, in southern Chile, to relaunch a shipping route between the islands and the city. On 29 September Argentina’s foreign minister, Pablo Quirno, said that Argentina expects Chile to respect the treaties in force and to give no logistical support for the exploitation of the islands’ resources. The route is expected to open between November and December.
- Venezuela. On 2 September Nicolás Maduro, who has been held in the United States since January, asked the federal court in New York to dismiss all charges against him. He argues that he cannot be prosecuted because he is the head of a foreign state. By 21 September the court had not ruled. (Congressional Research Service, 21 September, official record)
- Brazil. Brazil votes on 4 October. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, is the main rival of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for attempting a coup. (AFP, 28 September, copy of Buenos Aires Times)
Asia-Pacific
Nothing met the Monitor’s rules in this region in September 2026.
Middle East and North Africa
Israel and the United Kingdom: Israel closes the British consulate in East Jerusalem
On 8 September Britain, France and Canada announced plans to block imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. On the same day Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said that Israel was closing Britain’s consulate in East Jerusalem in response. The consulate is accredited to the Palestinian Authority. Saar also said that Britain could no longer take part in a US-led coordination mission for Gaza. Some British officials and other nationals, among them the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, were banned from entering Israel. Saar said that he had coordinated the response with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He accused Britain of interfering in Israel’s election, due in late October. The United Nations and most countries regard the settlements as illegal under international law. Israel disputes this. On the same day Israel announced plans for 1,000 new homes in the West Bank.
Israel and Slovenia: Israel opens its first embassy in Ljubljana
On 9 September Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia. Its foreign minister, Gideon Saar, travelled to Ljubljana and met his Slovenian counterpart, Tone Kajzer. The two signed a cooperation agreement on education, science, culture, youth and sport. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the new embassy and demanded that it be closed. The opening marks a change of policy in Slovenia under Prime Minister Janez Janša, who came to power in early June. The previous government, under Robert Golob, had recognised a Palestinian state in 2024. In 2025 it had banned imports from Israeli settlements, imposed an arms embargo and barred top Israeli officials, among them Benjamin Netanyahu, from entering the country. Janša’s government scrapped all these measures. Golob’s party, the Freedom Movement, said on 9 September that it would seek to remove Janša and Kajzer in parliament. Until now Israel’s embassy in Vienna had covered Slovenia.
Israel and Lebanon: detainees released in a deal, and the talks go on
On 3 and 4 September Israel released five civilians whom its forces had detained in southern Lebanon. Two of them are Syrians who had been captured in Lebanon, Lebanese officials said. In return, Lebanon agreed to search for the bodies of Jewish Lebanese citizens who went missing during the civil war. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel agreed to the release after Lebanon helped in that search. Officials said that the United States had mediated. Israel and Lebanon have no diplomatic relations. They began direct negotiations after a new war between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah broke out on 2 March. Israel invaded and now occupies a large part of southern Lebanon. A framework deal of June foresees an Israeli withdrawal in exchange for the disarmament of Hezbollah. Little of it has been carried out. Another round of talks was expected in Rome later in September.
- Israel. On 23 September Israel’s Central Elections Committee voted to bar Arab-majority parties and two candidates from the election of 27 October. Members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition had asked for the ban on the United Arab List (Ra’am). The decision is not final: the Supreme Court must review it. (AFP, 23 September, copy of Daily Sabah)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nothing met the Monitor’s rules in this region in September 2026.
New research
The PopuliVerse Library holds 49 works on populism that were published in September 2026: 44 journal articles, two books and three book reviews. By the Library’s tags, most are on parties, leaders and movements (21), on media and communication (12) and on voters and attitudes (9). Gender and migration follow with five works each. Fourteen works carry no topic tag. Among the regions Europe comes first (15 works), and among the countries Italy (5). Three works are on Giorgia Meloni.
The full list: 49 works published in September 2026
Journal articles (44)
- Abbas and Laiwang 2026. “Populism and democracy in Pakistan: a survey-based analysis of populist attitudes, institutional trust, and political engagement.” Asian Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2026.2736457
- Ahmad Jan et al. 2026. “Rape Reporting: A Critical Analysis of Sexist and Populist Sensationalism.” Women's Studies in Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2026.2729688
- Akinteye et al. 2026. “Populists at the Helm: ideology, policy tools, and bank liquidity creation.” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2026.102406
- Alvarado et al. 2026. “Framing and news sharing behavior: the use of confirmation and refutation statements in the election of a right-wing populist leader.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-08888-0
- Alvis et al. 2026. “Cost of Living Populism: A Discussion.” IPPR Progressive Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/newe.70034
- Andersson 2026. “The environmental consequences of rising political populism and growing economic inequality.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/21606544.2026.2734727
- Andreadis and Stavrakakis 2026. “Articulation as catalyst: how populism may help transform ethnic nationalism into nativism.” Political Research Exchange. https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736x.2026.2721308
- Arifirnando et al. 2026. “Protest Framing Shift on Social Media: Comparing Populist and Cultural Leadership Responses in Indonesia.” F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.188420.1
- Aronsson et al. 2026. “Populism and impatience.” Public Choice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-026-01441-2
- Ayan Musil et al. 2026. “Proximity as populist performance: A video data analysis of the 2023 Turkish elections.” Mediterranean Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2026.2730720
- Blinderman 2026. “Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: The Legacy of Southern Populism for Public Goods Provision.” Studies in American Political Development. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x2610039x
- Bolet et al. 2026. “Does populist anti-climate rhetoric drive public opposition to climate policy? Testing socio-cultural and economic frames.” Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2731598
- Bordignon and Pansardi 2026. “Populist Radical Right Women Leaders and the Framing of LGBTQI+ Issues: Le Pen, Meloni, and Weidel.” Politics and Governance. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.12533
- Bourekkadi and Elarraj 2026. “Penal Populism and the Failure of Its Core Claims.” Discover Global Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44282-026-00588-z
- Ćetković 2026. “When diplomats go populist: the normalization of populist discourse in digital diplomacy.” Social Semiotics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2026.2734333
- Chykina et al. 2026. “Does Populism Threaten Academic Freedom? A Cross-National Study of Asia and Europe.” American Journal of Education. https://doi.org/10.1086/743065
- De Giorgi and Zulianello 2026. “Female Leadership, Gender Neutralization, and the Populist Radical Right: The Case of Giorgia Meloni.” Politics and Governance. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.12556
- de la Torre and Diehl 2026. “Commentary for the Special Issue “The Politics of Populist Culture”.” Populism. https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-bja10107
- Echeverría 2026. “What is migration populism? Concept development and the Italian case.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2026.2725414
- Ferrari and Duthoit 2026. “Jannik Sinner seen by Giorgia Meloni: the populist co-optation of Italian sports heroes.” International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2026.2727440
- Foley et al. 2026. “Individuals Meaningfully Differ in How They Construct the Populist Subject of ‘the People’: Development and Initial Validation of the Popular Inclusion and Exclusion Scale.” European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70113
- Gentile et al. 2026. “Digital Populism and EU Regulatory Responses: An Ecosystem Analysis.” European Journal of Risk Regulation. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2026.10142
- Hatami 2027. “Populist urbanism and the speculation network: Discourse, conflict, and planning monopoly in Hamadan.” Journal of Urban Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2026.100558
- Hildebrandt et al. 2026. “The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change.” The British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70172
- Jiang and Zhang 2026. “Navigating the New Reality: Populism and Ownership Strategy in Cross‐border Acquisition.” British Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.70103
- Kayserilioğlu 2026. “Resilient populism in a changing world: oppositional strategies in Turkey and their prospects.” European Politics and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2026.2728056
- Kliger 2026. “Peasant to Revolutionary: Combined Genre in Populist Agitation Literature.” The Russian Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.70202
- Lambrechts and De Cleen 2026. “Shifting configurations of nationalism, populism, and conservatism: far-right environmental discourse on agriculture, climate, and energy.” Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2728447
- Merullo and Weeks 2026. “Women’s Leadership and the Expansion of Populist Radical Right Party Agendas.” Politics and Governance. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.12520
- Moreschi 2026. “Populist parties as anchors of ‘democratic’ consolidation? Evidence from Ecuador’s Movimiento Alianza PAIS.” Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2026.10097
- Mudde 2026. “Strongmen, populism and soccer: comparing Silvio Berlusconi, Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump.” International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2026.2727426
- Nam 2026. “Crafting a Populist Narrative in South Korea: Left Ideational Entrepreneurs and Historical Memory.” American Behavioral Scientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642261472329
- Oklobdzija and Witko 2026. “Backlashes to Gender Equality and Authoritarian Populism in the U.S.” Political Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129261485340
- Osborne 2026. “Populism, Counter-Liberalism and Charisma.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-026-09602-3
- Papastathis et al. 2026. “Religious ethno-populism in contemporary Greece: analysing the discourse of the Níki party.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2026.2732923
- Pérez-Curiel et al. 2026. “When populism meets artificial intelligence: AI-generated multimedia content and far-right digital campaigning on Instagram and X in the 2024 European elections.” Social Sciences & Humanities Open. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2026.103611
- Riemer and Wajner 2026. “The intelligence cyclone: How populism reshapes intelligence-policy relations.” Contemporary Security Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2026.2722403
- Serrano et al. 2026. “A Reflection on the Populist Challenge for Oral Health Professions Education.” European Journal of Dental Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/eje.70308
- Soares et al. 2026. “Populist profiles of young adults: Differences in political and emotional dimensions.” Political Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299261485641
- Söderström et al. 2026. “The affective paradox in populist online communities: Emotional capital and emotional liability.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152261484401
- Turska-Kawa and Pilch 2026. “Grey voters and populist voting. The role of religiosity and national collective narcissism.” PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336831
- Verbeek and Zaslove 2026. “The impact of populism on the foreign policies of states: towards an analytical framework.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2026.2738399
- Vestergaard 2026. “Overpromising populists? Why challenger parties make fewer, not more, promises than established parties.” European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1475676526101716
- Webb et al. 2026. “Personality, populism and party: support for ‘dark triad’ leaders in the UK.” West European Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2718981
Books (2)
- Cohen and Tarragoni 2026. The Populist Tradition: A Critical-Historic Approach. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781042013982
- Ungureanu and Mihai 2026. Resurgent Far-Right Populism in Romania: Disenchantment and Hope at Europe’s Periphery. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003711971
Book reviews (3)
- Chaudhry 2026. “Book review: Adnan Naseemullah and Pradeep Chhibber, Righteous Demagogues: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond.” South Asia Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280261487512
- Pykett 2026. “Precipitous times, precarious institutions and emotional governance (review of Anderson and Secor, The Politics of Feeling. Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism).” Dialogues in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206261492404
- Yang 2026. “Commissioned Book Review: Furedi, In Defence of Populism.” Political Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299261490013
The same list as a file, with the Library’s tags for each work: populiverse-monitor-2026-1-new-research.csv. The file is also part of the record of this issue at Zenodo.
Reference for an actor that is in no dataset
- Díaz, Camila, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, and Lisa Zanotti. 2023. “The Arrival of the Populist Radical Right in Chile: José Antonio Kast and the ‘Partido Republicano’.” Journal of Language and Politics 22 (3): 342–59. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22131.dia
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