Our research topics overlap key themes of digital populism, political accountability, political violence and radical democracy. We seek to understand the effect of populist parties across the ideological spectrum once they are in power, assessing democratic governance, social and political attitudes and other outcomes.

We are working on research that focuses on examples of populist movements online spreading disinformation and forms of political propaganda that spill out into offline incidents of vigiliantism and violence. We are exploring the relationship between populism and activism, challenging the critique that populism undermines solidarity among citizens and arguing that supplementing digital populist techniques with principles from radical social movements may offer new strategic pathways for emancipatory politics.