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2023

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Overview

Paul Taggart is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly contributions focus mainly on political science and international relations, while also engaging with sociology, artificial intelligence, and finance.

The main research themes addressed by Taggart involve populism, right-wing movements, European Union policy and governance, social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, media influence and politics, misinformation and its impacts, and hate speech and cyberbullying detection.

Taggart's recent publications include:

  • "European populism before the pandemic: ideology, Euroscepticism, electoral performance, and government participation of 63 parties in 30 countries" (2021), published in Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
  • "Populists in power and conspiracy theories" (2022), published in Party Politics
  • "The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic" (2022), published in Government and Opposition
  • "The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC)" (2023), published in British Journal of Political Science
  • "Euroscepticism and anti-establishment parties in Europe" (2024), published in Journal of European Integration

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Taggart include:

  • Andrea L. P. Pirro
  • Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
  • Aleks Szczerbiak
  • Matthijs Rooduijn
  • Daphne Halikiopoulou

Taggart's work has been disseminated across several academic journals, with multiple publications in venues such as PS Political Science & Politics and Government and Opposition. Other publication outlets include British Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, and Journal of European Integration.

Best Publications

  • A touchstone of dissent: Euroscepticism in contemporary Western European party systems

    Paul Taggart

  • Populism: an overview of the concept and the state of the art

    Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser;Paul Taggart;Paulina Ochoa Espejo;Pierre Ostiguy

  • Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe

    Paul Taggart

  • Contemporary Euroscepticism in the party systems of the European Union candidate states of Central and Eastern Europe

    Paul Taggart;Aleks Szczerbiak

  • Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics

    Paul Taggart

  • New populist parties in Western Europe

    Paul Taggart

  • The party politics of euroscepticism in EU member and candidate states

    Paul Taggart;Aleks Szczerbiak

  • The Oxford Handbook of Populism

    Cristobal Rovira-Kaltwasser;Paul A Taggart;Paulina Ochoa-Espejo;Pierre Ostiguy

  • Parties, Positions and Europe: Euroscepticism in the EU Candidate States of Central and Eastern Europe

    Paul Taggart;Aleks Szczerbiak

  • The PopuList: an overview of populist, far right, far left and Eurosceptic parties in Europe

    Matthijs Rooduijn;Stijn van Kessel;Caterina Froio;Andrea Pirro

  • The New Populism and the New Politics

    Paul A. Taggart

  • Dealing with populists in government: aframework for analysis

    Cristobal Rovira Kaltwassera;Paul Taggart

  • The PopuList: A Database of Populist, Far-Left, and Far-Right Parties Using Expert-Informed Qualitative Comparative Classification (EiQCC)

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  • Opposing Europe: Party Systems and Opposition to the Union, the Euro and Europeanisation

    Aleks Szczerbiak;Paul Taggart

  • The New Populism and the New Politics

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  • Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: A UK case study

    Tim Bale;Stijn van Kessel;Paul Taggart

  • Coming in from the cold? Euroscepticism and government participation and party positions on Europe

    Paul Taggart;Aleks Szczerbiak

  • Putting Brexit into perspective: the effect of the Eurozone and migration crises and Brexit on Euroscepticism in European states

    Paul Taggart;Aleks Szczerbiak

  • Theorising Party-Based Euroscepticism: Problems of Definition, Measurement and Causality

    Aleks Szczerbiak;Paul Taggart

  • Opposing Europe? The comparative party politics of Euroscepticism. Volume 2: Comparative and theoretical perspectives

    Aleks Szczerbiak;Paul Taggart

  • The populist politics of Euroscepticism in times of crisis: Comparative conclusions:

    Andrea Lp Pirro;Paul Taggart;Stijn van Kessel

  • Dealing with populists in government: some comparative conclusions

    Paul Taggart;Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser

  • Oxford handbook of populism

    Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser;Paul Taggart;Paulina Ochoa Espejo;Pierre Ostiguy

  • Opposing Europe ?

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Frequent Co-Authors

Aleks Szczerbiak
Aleks Szczerbiak University of Sussex
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Tim Bale
Tim Bale Queen Mary University of London
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Cas Mudde
Cas Mudde University of Georgia
Matthijs Rooduijn
Matthijs Rooduijn University of Amsterdam

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