Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Andreas Nölke
• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 440389136

This project aims to inform strategies to increase democratic resilience by studying the mechanisms that “exclusionary populist” movements use to increase their power by undermining the Rule of Law and eroding the divide between the public and private domains in the areas of law, the economy, and the media. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach spanning political economy, political science, legal-, management-, and media studies, we compare Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, and Turkey, all of which have experienced populist success, but differ considerably in their histories and institutional setups.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Austria, Poland, Slovenia, United Kingdom
• Cooperation Partners: Professorin Barbara Blaszczyk; Professor Simon Deakin; Dr. Mojca Pajnik; Dr. Dorottya Sallai; Professorin Dr. Birgit Sauer; Dr. Gerhard Schnyder