Political populism from the fringe to the mainstream: A conceptual framework

POPREBEL Working Paper no. 4: Political populism from the fringe to the mainstream: A conceptual framework. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822682. POPREBEL Working Paper series POPREBEL (Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism) is a large Horizon 2020-funded research project on the rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of the project is to describe the phenomenon, create a typology of its various manifestations, reconstruct trajectories of its growth and decline, investigate its causes, interpret its meanings, diagnose its consequences and propose policy solutions. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822682.The POPREBEL consortium comprises six universities – UCL (co-ordinatinginstitution), University of Belgrade, Charles University, Corvinus University ofBudapest, Jagiellonian University and University of Tartu – and Edge ryders, a social enterprise.

Contents 1. Introduction 2.Political populism 2.1 Varieties of populism in CE/SEE 2.2 The populist challenge from within the mainstream 2.3 Populists in power 2.4 Popular geopolitics and the cultural grounds of populism 2.5 Looking beyond parties to understand populist politics