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CEU Democracy Institute

Publications by Fellows in the "Populism and Ideology" Hub

  • Anugrah, Iqra. “Critical Scholars as Professional Managerial Class: A Structural and Personal Reflection from Indonesia and Beyond.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and-National Studies of Southeast Asia (2025): 1-23. 
  • Anugrah, Iqra. “Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic: Lin Hongxuan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.” (2025): 1-3.
  • Batool, Fizza. “Between Socialism and Islam: Mapping Inclusion and Exclusion in Bhutto’s Populism.” In Populist Discourse in Pakistani Politics: Testing a New Two-Dimensional Model of Inclusionary and Exclusionary Populist Discourse, pp. 103-131. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.
  • Batool, Fizza. “Between Tradition and Change: Mapping Inclusion and Exclusion in Imran Khan’s Populism.” In Populist Discourse in Pakistani Politics: Testing a New Two-Dimensional Model of Inclusionary and Exclusionary Populist Discourse, pp. 133-157. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.  
  • Batool, Fizza. “National Identity Formation Through Civilizational Populist Discourse: The Historical–Discourse Analysis of Imran Khan’s Public Addresses in 2022.” Religions 16, no. 11 (2025): 1369.  
  • Batool, Fizza. Populist discourse in Pakistani politics: Testing a new two-dimensional model of inclusionary and exclusionary populist discourse. Springer Nature, 2025.
  • Borges, André, and Lisa Zanotti. “Authoritarian, but not nativist: classifying far-right parties in Latin America.” Political Studies 73, no. 4 (2025): 1569-1591.
  • Busby, Ethan C., Ryan Carlin, Kirk A. Hawkins, and Levente Littvay. “Speaking populism: ideational vs. issue-based theories of populism.” Frontiers in Political Science 7 (2025): 1606288.
  • Davis, Braeden, Jay Goodliffe, and Kirk Hawkins. “The two-way effects of populism on affective polarization.” Comparative Political Studies 58, no. 1 (2025): 122-154.
  • Dzebo, Semir, Erin K. Jenne, Levente Littvay, Kirk A. Hawkins, and Olaf van der Veen. “US governors populism database: Assessing the impact of Donald Trump on state-level discourse.” Party Politics (2025): 13540688251327564.
  • Ece Özbey, Ebru, and Atila Eralp. “Narratives in Flux: Turkish Elite Perspectives on Germany’s Role in EU–Turkey Relations.” German Politics 34, no. 4 (2025): 845-868.
  • García, Javier Zamora, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, and Lisa Zanotti. “¿ Madrid global o castizo? Neoliberalismo y nacionalismo en el discurso de VOX y PP hacia la inmigración de origen latino.” Revista española de ciencia política 68 (2025): 131-158.
  • Hawkins, K.A. and Mitchell, G.A., 2025. The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy. PS: Political Science & Politics, 58(1), pp.77-81.
  • Jung, Yujin J., Eduardo Ryô Tamaki, Julia Chatterley, Grant Mitchell, Semir Dzebo, Cristóbal Sandoval, Levente Littvay, and Kirk A. Hawkins. “Populism Meets AI: Advancing Populism Research with LLMs.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.07458 (2025).
  • Somer, Murat, and Jennifer McCoy. “27. Affective polarization and democratic backsliding.” Handbook of Affective Polarization (2025): 402.
  • Tamaki, Eduardo Ryô, and Yujin J. Jung. “The non-linearity between populist attitudes and ideological extremism.” Political Science Research and Methods (2025): 1-20.
    • Target journal: Journal of Development Studies (Taylor & Francis).  
  • Venturelli, Gustavo. “Are there populist parties in Brazil? An analysis of Election manifestos.” Party Politics 31, no. 4 (2025): 739-750.
  • Yilmaz, Ihsan, and Fizza Batool. “Democracy and Sovereignity: The Dynamics of Pakistani Identity and Political Engagement.” In Populist Identification in Public Discourse: Pakistanis Constructing Pakistaniat, pp. 121-138. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.
  • Zanotti, Lisa, Fabián Villalobos Machuca, and Francisco Roldán Duque. “Echoes Without Integration: Strategic Resonance and the Limits of Radical Right Transnationalism.” Política y Sociedad 62, no. 2 (2025): e99134. 
  • Zanotti, Lisa, Gonzalo Espinoza Bianchini, Francisco Roldán Duque, and Fabián Villalobos-Machuca. “Choosing the ‘Right’ Right: Identity, Ideology, and Voting Behavior in Chile.” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 21, no. 1 (2025).
The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town

Publications by Fellows in the "Democratizing the Developmental State Hub"

  • Alarcón, Pedro (2025).” Frelimo and the Fate of Mozambique.” Business in Development blog, Centre for Business and Development Studies, Copenhagen Business School, 4 April, https://cbds.cbs.dk/frelimo-and-the-fate-of-mozambique/ 
  • Alarcón, Pedro (2025). “The fossil fuel reality behind the rhetoric of energy transition.” D+C Development and Cooperation, 24 September, https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/role-many-global-south-countries-world-market-remains-largely-unchanged-they-primarily/ 
  • Arhin, Gerald E., and Pritish Behuria. “Why do countries invest in geological investigations for minerals? A comparative analysis of contrasting outcomes in Ghana and Rwanda.” Geoforum 163 (2025): 104300.
  • Barragan-Contreras, Sandra Jazmin, Matthew Paterson, James Jackson, Silke Trommer, Pritish Behuria, and Sam Hickey. “Capturing the disruptive nature of green energy transitions: A political economy approach.” Energy Research & Social Science 123 (2025): 104039. 
  • Behuria, Pritish. “The Deceptive Allure of Luxury Tourism: The Political Economy of Tourism Strategies in Mauritius, Botswana, and Rwanda.” African Studies Review (2025): 1-26. 
  • Behuria, Pritish. “Donors and Disciplines Meet the Political Economy of Development: The Contested Evolution of Political Settlements Analysis.” Progress in Development Studies (2025): 14649934251322274. 
  • Behuria, Pritish. (2025). Is the Study of Development Humiliating or Emancipatory? The Case Against Universalising ‘Development’. The European Journal of Development Research, 37(2), 344-355. 
  • Behuria, Pritish, and Andy Sumner. “Development Studies in the Mid-2020s: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future: Introduction to EJDR Special Issue for EADI’s 50th anniversary.” The European Journal of Development Research (2025): 1-16. 
  • Behuria, Pritish. “The case for structuralism: the selective amnesia of global development amid contemporary aid cuts.” Development and development policy in the Trump era (2025): 57. 
  • Behuria, Pritish, and Andy Sumner. “Middle-income Trap or Neoliberal Trap?: Industrial Policy and Ideology in the World Development Report 2024.” Development and Change (2025). 
  • Behuria, Pritish. “The injustice of just transitions: How the neglect of the green division of labour cements African dependencies.” Energy Research & Social Science 122 (2025): 104007. 
  • Behuria, Pritish. “How the India DTAA Shapes Future Offshore.” The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (2025): 315.
  • Delbar, H. (2025). Book review: The Political Economy of Divergent Welfare States in the Global South: The Case of South Africa and Mauritius by Elias Phaahla. Journal of Development Studies. Publisher: Taylor & Francis. Published online: 05 August 2025. Book Review
  • Delbar, H. Forging a Developmental State: Bureaucratic Autonomy and Economic Transformation in Mauritius. Under review at Journal of Southern African Studies (Taylor & Francis).
  • Delbar, H. Resisting Democratic Erosion: Opposition Strategies, Regime Uncertainty, and Democratic Recovery in Mauritius. Manuscript submitted to Prof. Murat Somer as part of the Global Forum cross-hub collaboration on Opposition Strategies to Democratic Backsliding.
  • Delbar, H. The Authoritarian Origins and Democratic Consolidation of the Mauritian Developmental State
  • Delbar, Hamza. “The Political Economy of Divergent Welfare States in the Global South: The Case of South Africa and Mauritius: By Elias Phaahla Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 246 pp.,£ 109.99 (Hardback),£ 93.99 (eBook), ISBN: 978-3-031-50449-5 (Hardback), ISNB: 978-3-031-50450-1 (ebook).” (2025): 1-2.  
  • Delbar, Hamza. “The Political Economy of Divergent Welfare States in the Global South: The Case of South Africa and Mauritius: By Elias Phaahla Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 246 pp.,£ 109.99 (Hardback),£ 93.99 (eBook), ISBN: 978-3-031-50449-5 (Hardback), ISNB: 978-3-031-50450-1 (ebook).” (2025): 1-2. 
  • Dyzenhaus, Alex (2024). ‘Sweetening the Deal: The Political Economy of Land Redistribution in South Africa’s Sugar Sector’. Comparative Politics. 57(1). https://doi.org/10.5129/001041524X17168349310082  
  • Dyzenhaus, Alex and Carolyn Holmes (2025 Online Access). ‘Negotiating the Boundaries of Farmerhood: Class, Race and Identity in the new rural South Africa’. Politics, Groups and Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2539502  
  • Dyzenhaus, Alex. (Forthcoming) ‘The More Things Change: Race, Segregation and Land Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa’.  World Politics.
  • Graham, Suzanne, Gideon Chitanga, and Philisiwe Mpondo. “In the sea of global relations, is Seychelles softly surfacing?” In Understanding Soft Power in Africa, pp. 127-138. Routledge, 2025.
  • Lehmann, Rosa, and Pedro Alarcón. “Political economy and energy justice: Rentier dynamics in fossil extractivist states in Latin America.” In Energy Justice in Latin America, pp. 25-41. Routledge, 2025.  
  • Marslev, Kristoffer, and Lindsay Whitfield. “Why do labor regimes change? Worker power, the supplier squeeze, and structural transformation in the global apparel industry.” Journal of Economic Geography (2025): lbae049. 
  • Maile, Felix, and Lindsay Whitfield. “Supplier Firm Value Capture Trajectories in Global Value Chains: Wich Complomentary Assets Matter?.” (2025). Research.cbs.dk 
  • Maile, Felix, and Lindsay Whitfield. “Rethinking Economic Upgrading in Apparel GVCs: Value Capture Through Strategic Partnership in Product Innovation Cycles.” (2025). research.cbs.dk
  • Pérez Lagüela, E. (2025): “La pertinencia del debate acerca de la centralidad del desarrollo agrícola en las economías periférico-dependientes. Algunas reflexiones y apuntes conceptuales sobre agricultura, capitalismo y la cuestión agraria contemporánea”, in Various Authors. El desarrollo desigual del capitalismo. Ensayos desde la crítica de la economía política. Madrid. Ecobook, ISBN: 978-8412849387, pp. 137-170.  
  • Pérez Lagüela, E. (2025): “La tertulia dialógica como herramienta de aprendizaje cooperativo en las asignaturas de Economía del Grado en Relaciones Internacionales”, in Hernández Martínez, D. and de Sousa Ferreira, S.: Guía de clases prácticas para Relaciones Internacionales. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense, ISBN: 978-84-669-3967-6, pp. 33-46.  
  • Pérez Lagüela, E. (in press): “The Political Economy of Growth and Development in the Mediterranean”, in Hernández Martínez, D. and Martini, A. International Relations in the Mediterranean Region: political challenges and global dynamics. London. Palgrave McMillan  
  • Pérez Lagüela, Elena. “An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence: By Zeinab Badawi London: WH Allen, 2024, 544 pp., 35(hardback), 26 (paperback), 16(e-book); ISBN:9780753560129(hardback), ISBN:9780753560143 (paperback), ISBN:9780063335431(e-book).” (2025): 1-3.
  • Pérez-Lagüela, Elena. “España en la economía mundial.” In España en el mundo: El papel de España en el nuevo orden mundial, pp. 43-72. Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2025.  
  • Pérez-Lagüela, Elena. “Las relaciones de España con la región de África subsahariana.” In España en el mundo: El papel de España en el nuevo orden mundial, pp. 237-266. Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2025.  
  • Pérez-Lagüela, Elena. “The role of the state in contemporary processes of late-late development. A diagnosis of the Ethiopian experience to illustrate a renewed debate.” Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo= Iberoamerican journal of development studies 14, no. 2 (2025): 62-85. 
    • Planned submission: forthcoming (within the coming weeks).   
  • Ponce, Aldo F., and Susan E. Scarrow. “Party organizational resources and election campaigns: Explaining party contacting.” Party Politics (2025): 13540688251391578.
  • Slater, Dan. “The authoritarian origins of the third wave.” Journal of Democracy 36, no. 2 (2025): 118-129. 
  • Slater, Dan. “Wars Make Laws and Laws Make States.” Nationalities Papers 53, no. 1 (2025): 232-234. 
  • Slater, Dan. “Development sidelines democracy: Southeast Asia and the’middle-democracy’trap.” In East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 28-29. Canberra, ACT: ANU Press, 2025.
  • Vong, M. (Forthcoming). Political Change, Social Media and Everyday Resistance in Cambodia. In A. Suryana (Ed.), Liberating or Curtailing? Digital Governance, Public Service and Democracy in Southeast Asia. UIII Press.  
  • Vong, M., Po, S., & Ki, M. (2025). Cambodia’s Quest for International Status: Strategies and Implications. The Pacific Review, 1-23. 
  • Vong, Mun, Sovinda Po, and Manghout Ki. “Cambodia’s quest for international reputation: strategies and implications.” The Pacific Review (2025): 1-23.  
  • Vong, Mun. “The Dynamics of Pro-Government Labour Mobilisation in Cambodia.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 55, no. 4 (2025): 561-577.  
  • Whitfield, Lindsay, and Tobias Wuttke. “Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch‐up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism: Possible Pathways out of the Periphery.” Development and Change 56, no. 4-5 (2025): 783-812. 
  • Whitfield, Lindsay, Felix Maile, and Tobias Wuttke. “Green Windows of Opportunity and Catch-Up Industrialization in Africa.” (2025): 353. 
  • Wuttke, Tobias, and Lindsay Whitfield. “China’s technological catch-up and leapfrogging in electric vehicles: A firm-level study of BYD and CATL.” Progress in Economic Geography (2025): 100054.
Sri Lanka Social Scientists’ Association (SSA)

Publications by Fellows in the "Exclusionary Regimes, Autocratization and Democracy" Hub

  • Finkel, Müge, Dhanaraj Thakur, Steven Finkel, Firat Duruşan, Erdem Yörük, Işık Topçu, Melih Can Yardi, Amanda Zaner, and Jungmin Han. “Intersectional Hatred-An Application of Large Language Models to Detect Hate and Offensive Speech Targeted at Congressional Candidates in the 2024 US Election.” In Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, pp. 2776-2781. 2025. 
  • I., G.. “Elite Polarization in European Parliamentary Speeches: a Novel Measurement Approach Using Large Language Models.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06658 (2025).
  • Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena, and Francesca Chiarvesio. “Visibility politics of disability representative civil society organizations pursuing social justice in Russia.” Problems of Post-Communism 72, no. 3 (2025): 250-261.
  • İçen, Emirhan, Yağız Seymen Ergüzel, Bülent Sankur, and Erdem Yörük. “Out-of-Distribution Detection in Retail Product Recognition.” In 2025 33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2025.
  • Karusigarira, Ian. “Security and Policing Global Pandemics COVID-19 Security and ‘Scientific’Politics in Uganda.” ASC-TUFS Working Papers 5 (2025): 1-16.
  • Yörük, Erdem, Şükrü Atsızelti, M. Fuat Kına, Fırat Duruşan, Oğuz Gürerk, Melih Can Yardı, Ali Hürriyetoğlu et al. “A Computational Analysis of Ideological Positions, Emotional Stance, and Support for Presidential Candidates in Turkey.” The Developing Economies 63, no. 1 (2025): 97-125. 
  • Yörük, Erdem. “The Politics of Welfare in the Global South. Edited by Sattwick Dey Biswas, Cleopas Gabriel Sambo, and Sony Pellissery. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2025. 368p.” Perspectives on Politics 23, no. 3 (2025): 1209-1210. 
  • Yörük, Erdem, and Enes Sari. “The Internal Displacement of Kurds and Class Structure in Turkey.” Kurdish Studies Journal (2025) 1–30.
Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, Universidad de los Andes

Publications by Fellows in the "New Patterns of Mobilization for and against Democracy" Hub

  • Acuña, Felipe, and Rocío Fernández Ugalde. “Dissenting from what? The rupture of Chilean teachers with the long-term consensus on teacher professional development.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 23, no. 1 (2025): 63-78.  
  • Agbalajobi, Damilola, Mohammed S. Awal, Taibat Lawanson, and Jeffrey W. Paller. “Claiming the city: Citizenship and political connections in African neighborhoods.” World Development 192 (2025): 107010.
  • Cavatorta, Francesco. “The Tunisian revolution and democratic transition: the role of al-Nahdah: by Mohammad Dawood Sofi, New York, Routledge, 2022, 172 pp., $54.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780367762315.” (2025): 529-531. 
  • Merone, Fabio, and Francesco Cavatorta. Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia: A Gramscian Analysis. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. 
  • Cavatorta, Francesco. “The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. By Malika Zeghal.” (2025): csaf037. 
  • El Chazli, Youssef. “‘I Have Learned Things Late in Life’: The Aftereffects of Revolutionary Participation in Egypt.” Middle East Critique (2025): 1-18.  
  • Fernández Ugalde, Rocío. “Media articulation and the stabilisation of teacher policies in Chile.” Critical Studies in Education 66, no. 3 (2025): 314-333.
  • Mostofa, Shafi Md. “Electoral Failure of Political Islam: The Case of Jamaat-E-Islami in Bangladesh.” South Asia Research 45, no. 1 (2025): 7-26.
  • Ramaioli, Massimo and Francesco Cavatorta (eds.).  External Referents and the Dynamics of Opposition in the MENA. POMEPS (Political of Middle East Political Science) (under review)  
  • Ramaioli, Massimo and Francesco Cavatorta. “Opposition Learning as Capitulation – Leftist Parties’ Trajectories in Iraq and Morocco.”  Mediterranean Politics (under review)  
  • Ramaioli, Massimo and Francesco Cavatorta. “West versus West? Reflections on the 2011 regime change in Lybia.” African Security Review (under review)  
  • Ramaioli, Massimo, Francesco Cavatorta, and Shafi Mostafa (eds.) “’Cattivi Maestri’: Intellectuals and Radical Political Mobilization.” American Behavioural Scientist, Special Issue (forthcoming)  
  • Ramaioli, Massimo. Technocracy and the Liberal Order: A critique of democracy and transnationalism”  Transnationalism, Technology and Ideology: Emerging Frontiers of Global Order by Abu B. Bah, MIT University Press. With Phil Gray (under review).  
  • Ramaioli, Massimo. “The Organic Intellectuals that weren’t and the predicaments of the Islamic State.” American Behavioural Scientist (under review)
  • Sunca, Jan Yasin. “Reflecting on coloniality of power, colonial violence and decolonization through the University of Rojava.” Decolonizing Knowledge: Looking Back, Moving Forward (2025): 235.  
  • Sunca, Jan Yasin. “Unpacking inter-subaltern hierarchies: Gramsci, postcolonial nationalism, and the Kurdish third way.” Ethnopolitics 24, no. 2 (2025): 179-198.