In person icon Populism and Unpolitics

Abstract

This panel seeks to explore, in different ways and in different contexts, how ‘unpolitics’, a fundamental antipathy to and disinterest in politics itself, interacts with populism. The concept of unpolitics (Taggart 2018) has recently been used and developed to address Conservative politics in the UK (Robinson 2024) and populist actors behaviour in the EU (Zaun and Ripoll Servent, 2024). This panel seeks to build on these to address the wider application of unpolitics to address how we might differentiate between populist actors, to look at strategies of populist actors, and to explain populist responses to international institutions and international crises.

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Anti-Populist Attitudes: Insights from Portugal	View Paper Details
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Unpolitics in the Czech Parliament: Minority Tactics Undermining Majority Rule	View Paper Details
Defending Consensus Against the Bullies: The EU's Resilience Against Populist Radical Right Governments Using Unpolitics During the COVID-19 Crisis	View Paper Details