Daphne Halikiopoulou

2021/2022: Understanding right-wing populism and what to do about it- in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford).  How can we understand the rise of right-wing populism and what can we do about it? This report examines the electoral success of right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) in 17 European countries and makes recommendations for how progressives should respond. Specifically, we study the three Ps:

People: Why do individual people vote for RWPPs?

Policy: What is the role of policy?

Parties: What makes certain RWPPs more successful than others?

The structure of the Three Ps provides a framework to address crucial questions many progressive decision-makers, strategists and citizens have:

Is it cultural or economic concerns that drive support for RWPPs?

Can economic & social policies prevent the success of RWPPs?

Can populism alone explain the success of RWPPs?

What should progressives do to address voters of RWPPs?

The report will provide comprehensive answers to those and many more questions and include hands-on visualizations, policy recommendations as well as an in-depth insight into country-specific and regional peculiarities and distinctions. It will be published in early 2022. 

2019: Daphne is part of the PopuList team. The PopuList is a peer-reviewed list of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties that obtained at least 2% of the vote in at least one national parliamentary election since 1998. The PopuList is supported by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, The Guardian, and the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy (Citation: Rooduijn, M., Van Kessel, S., Froio, C., Pirro, A., De Lange, S., Halikiopoulou, D., Lewis, P., Mudde, C. & Taggart, P. (2019). The PopuList: An Overview of Populist, Far Right, Far Left and Eurosceptic Parties in Europe).

2019: University of Reading Research Fellowship: the aim of this project is to examine far right populism on a global scale. Specifically, it aims at identifying different patterns of nationalist narratives and how they appeal to different social groups in different countries. It does so by comparing far right populist parties with varied success in Europe, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Brazil.

2015: Hellenic Observatory/ National Bank of Greece funded project entitled: 'Radicalising the Mainstream? The Rise of the Golden Dawn and its Impact on Greek Party Politics' (with Kyriaki Nanou, University of Nottingham, and Sofia Vasilopoulou, University of York). The project, which is part of the broader Comparative Agendas Project (CAP), examines the extreme right Golden Dawn and its impact on the dynamics of party competition in Greece.