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Populism, Ideology and Discourse in the Global South

Ece Özbey

Contact: ozbeye(at)ceu.edu

Doctoral Researcher and Instructor, University of Cologne & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) 

Ece Özbey works as a Global Forum Fellow at Democracy Institute and an editor of its journal, the Review of Democracy. She is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Cologne, where she is pursuing her PhD in Comparative Politics through the IMPRS-SPCE program. She holds an MSc in European Studies and a BSc in International Relations. Her research focuses on populism, Euroscepticism, political competition, and radicalization, mainly in European democracies. An affiliate of the METU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, she has also contributed to and published on European integration and EU-Turkey relations. Ece has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions in the US, the UK, and Chile. She is a founding member of OPUS Young Researchers Initiative on Populism and an active member of a variety of other research networks such as Team Populism and the FEPS Young Academics Network.

Research project

Mapping Anti-Populism in British Politics: A Discourse Network Analysis of the Televised Election Debates