Week 3

session 3, Wednesday (February 3): Question of Causality. Why Now?

Readings (Attached Below):

  • Mudde and Kaltwasser. Populism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford (2018): Chapter 6

  • Germani. Authoritarianism, Fascism and National Populism. Routledge [1978] (2019): Chapters 1,4,5 and 6

  • Appel and Orenstein. From Triumph to Crisis. Cambridge (2018): Chapters 1 and 6


FRIDAY (February 5):

guest Lecture series 3

This is the third in the Guest Lecture Series Featuring Márton Gerő who will present on "Populism and social integration: the role of civil society"

Readings (Attached Below):

  • Tilly, C. (2003). Inequality, Democratization, and De-Democratization. Sociological Theory, 21(1), 37–43.

  • Enyedi, Z. (2005). The role of agency in cleavage formation. European Journal of Political Research, 44(5), 697–720.

  • Gerő, M. et. al. "Strategies for Survival: Human Rights Organizations’ Responses to the Closing of Political Opportunity Structures in Hungary." Politologicky Casopis, 27(2), 119–139.



Mudde, Kaltwasser_Populism_ a very short introduction-Oxford University Press (2017).pdf


Germani_Authoritarianism, Fascism, and National Populism.pdf


Hilary Appel_ Mitchell A Orenstein - From Triumph to Crisis_ Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries-Cambridge University Press (2018).pdf


Tilly_Inequality, Demoncratization and De-democratization.pdf


The_Role_of_Agency_in_Cleavage_Formation.pdf


strategies-for-survival-human-rights-organizations-responses-to-the-closing-of-political-opportunity-structures-in-hungary_Content File-PDF.pdf