Adrian Favero Author

Daniele Albertazzi is Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics of the University of Surrey and co-directs the Centre for Britain and Europe of the University of Surrey (a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence). The major strands of his work have focused on about populism in Western Europe, party organization, Italian politics, Swiss politics, and the communication strategies of political parties. Albertazzi's most recent books are Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe (Routledge 2021), co-edited with Davide Vampa, and Populism in Europe (Manchester University Press, 2021), co-written with Davide Vampa. Stijn van Kessel is Professor of Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His main research interests are populism and populist parties in Europe, the radical right, and the politics of European integration. He is the author of Populist Parties in Europe (Palgrave, 2015) and The Failure of Remain (McGill-Queens University Press, 2023), co-written with Adam Fagan. He has also published articles in British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, and Party Politics, among others. He is joint editor of the Routledge book series Extremism and Democracy. Adrian Favero is Assistant Professor in European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh (2018). He previously worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the ESRC- funded project 'Populism in Action' at the University of Birmingham. His research is comparative in nature and focuses on party organization and right-wing populism within and across Europe, as well as attitudes towards the EU and intra-EU migration. His works have been published in various peer-reviewed journals. Niko T. Hatakka was Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Helsinki in the Faculty of Social Sciences, and previously a research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLSIS) at the University of Birmingham. He was also a visiting fellow at the Centre for Parliamentary Studies at the University of Turku. His research focused on the populist radical right, party organization, the relationship of populism and media, online activism, political communication, and media platforms. Judith Sijstermans is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Aberdeen. She previously held post-doctoral research roles with the ESRC-funded 'Populism in Action' project at the University of Birmingham and the UK in a Changing Europe-funded 'Family of Nations' project at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. Her research has focused on nationalist political parties, including radical right and secessionist ones, and relationships between political parties across the European Union. She focuses on the cases of the UK, particularly Scotland, and Belgium, particularly Flanders. Mattia Zulianello is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Trieste. He received a PhD in Political Science with distinction from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy in 2015, and has previously worked at the University of Florence and the University of Birmingham. His research has appeared in several international peer-reviewed journals, and he is the author of Anti-System Parties (Routledge, 2019). His main research interests are populism, radicalism, extremism, party systems, and comparative politics.