New Special Issue online!

Issue 1 Volume 60, 2025 available here

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Special Issue: "Right Move? Populist Radical Right Parties and Europe"

Guest Editors: Matilde Rosina, Marianna Griffini and Leila Simona Talani

"While before winning power populist radical right (PRR) parties are often overtly against the European Union (EU) and its policies, once in government their position can change significantly. Their threats to leave the EU are frequently replaced by requests for greater EU involvement, particularly in economic and migration issues. This Special Issue unpacks PRR parties’ discourse and policies in relation to Europe, before and after gaining power...."

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Find the Table of Contents below for your convenience:

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Right Move? Populist Radical Right Parties and Europe

Essay - Open access

• Right Move? Populist Radical Right Parties and Europe

Matilde Rosina, Marianna Griffini and Leila Simona Talani

Article - Open access

• The European Conservatives and Reformists Group: Cooperation or Opposition in Europe’s Parliament?

Margherita de Candia and Edoardo Bressanelli

Article

• It Takes Two to Tango: The Technocracy-populism Nexus in Italy and the EU from a Critical-realist Perspective

Adriano Cozzolino

Article - Open access

• Inventing and Re-inventing Populism to Protect Europe: The Case of the Italian Partito Democratico, 2007-2022

Gianmarco Fifi

Article

• Why History Matters? Populist Radical Right Governments in the EU and Their Foreign Policy

Nikola Petrović and Josip Bilić

Article - Open access

• An Ideological Divide? Political Parties’ Discourse in Italy’s Migration Cooperation with Libya and Albania

Marianna Griffini and Matilde Rosina

Article - Open access

• Freedom in Populist Radical Right Discourses: The Polish ‘Island of Freedom’ in the 2019 European Parliament Election

Alexander Alekseev

Article - Open access

• Italy’s Populist Radical Right and Anti-Gender Discourses: Lega, FdI and the Case of the Zan Bill

Laura Montecchio

Forum

Article

• Challenges and Opportunities of Using Generative AI for Research: Opening the Discussion

Leo Goretti, Anselm Küsters, Stella Morgana and Ananya Sharma

Book reviews

• Invisible Barriers: Exposing Inequality and Discrimination in Contemporary Migration Policies

Matilde Rosina

• Brexit Means Brexit: Understanding the Failure of the Anti-Brexit Movement

Lorenzo Zamponi

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