About

Duncan McDonnell is Professor of Politics at Griffith University. In 2022, he will begin a 4-year ARC Future Fellowship. Before joining Griffith in September 2014, he was a Jean Monnet Fellow and then a Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests are political party organisations and populism. He is a member of research teams that in recent years have recieved funding from the Swedish Research Council and the Australian Research Council for long-term projects on youth wings in Europe, on the relationships between populist and mainstream parties, and on Indigenous involvement in Australian political parties. He is currently working on a book about youth wings in Australia. His most recent book, co-authored with Annika Werner, is International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament (2019), published in the UK by Hurst and in the US by Oxford University Press. Since joining Griffith, he has published in leading journals, including Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Democratization, International Political Science Review, Parliamentary Affairs, and Political Studies. He tweets at @duncanmcdonnell McDonnell has also written extensively on right-wing populism. His most recent book, co-authored with Annika Werner, is International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament (2019), published in the UK by Hurst and in the US by Oxford University Press. Since 2016, he has published in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Democratization, International Political Science Review, and Political Studies. He tweets at @duncanmcdonnell

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, European Politics, Political Parties, Populism, Party Members, Euroscepticism

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Southern European Politics
• Political Parties
• Extremism and Democracy
• European Union