PROJECT: EXPLORING THE VOTER – PARTY LINK
- EXPLORING THE VOTER – PARTY LINK (ongoing): This work included hosting an ECPR- JOINT SESSIONS WORKSHOP 2021 — VIRTUAL016: New Frontiers in Democracy Research: Tackling a Conceptual and Methodological Impasse. FOR THE FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION DETAILS, SEE HERE
PROJECT: LOSING CONTROL-ANALYZING THE DEMAND SIDE OF POPULIST PARTY SUPPORT
- LOSING CONTROL: ANALYZING THE DEMAND SIDE OF POPULIST PARTY SUPPORT –– RQ: What effect does an individual’s sense of loss of control have on the support for populist parties? Projekt with Viktoria Jansesberger
PROJECT: EXPLAINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULISM, TRUST, IDEOLOGY AND FEELING AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC
- EXPLAINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULISM, TRUST, IDEOLOGY AND FEELING AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC: RQ: What impact do populist attitudes have on the way individuals perceive the COVID-19 pandemic,
PROJECT: POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND COVID-19
- POLITICAL REACTIONS TO EXISTENTIAL FEARS WITH COVID-19: Conjoint survey experiment with preceding vignette experiment. RQ: what impact do such attitudes have on support for policies to combat COVID-19 under conditions of a liberal democracy?
NEW BOOK PROJECT
- Does Ethno-Territorial Identity Matter in Populist Party Support? Analyzing the Demand-Side of 20 National and Regional Populist Parties. Project with Viktoria Jansesberger
NEW BOOK PROJECT
- Book publication: with Aneta Cektic and Klaudia Koxha — Diverse Voices on Populism – New Insights from the European “Periphery” (Nomos scheduled 2022)
Table of Content – Planned Contributions
- Introduction
- Political and historical causal analysis of Populism in Central and Eastern Europe – Daniel and Ruzha Smilov
- Populism in Countries of Democratic Transition: The Case of Armenia – Ruben Elamiryan
- Mapping populism in the European Post-Transition Periphery — Ashot Aleksanyan
- Populism in a never ending and multiple system transformation: the Kosovo case – Avdi Smajljaj
- Going in Cycles: Populist Discourses in Post-Soviet Georgia — David Matsaberidze
- In the political mainstream: Populism in Albania – Reinhard Heinisch, Klaudia Koxha
- Populism in Armenia: A Conceptual Framework and its application — Simon Clarke
- Political Parties and Leaders: Populism in Serbia — Despot Kovačević, Despot Kovačević,
- Populists in Government: The Case of Macedonia — Aneta Cekikj
- Populist Electorate Without Populist Parties: The Curious Case of Montenegro-Nemanja-Stankov
Reinhard Heinisch 