Across the world, populist and nativist arguments have shifted electoral politics, realigned political parties, and redefined policy debates. From politicians and policymaking to elections and the media, debates about immigration, populism, ethnicity, and nativism are redefining politics. Building off of the success of a 2018 symposium, Ipsos Public Affairs and the EU Center at Texas A&M University are bringing together researchers who study these important political issues from a broad range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to share and discuss their research.
This virtual event took place on June 21, 2021 starting at 8am through Texas A&M University.
Presented research will be prepared for submission to a special issue of Social Science Quarterly.

Conference Schedule:

8:00-8:10
Opening remarks by Kirby Goidel and Clifford Young

Session 1 Chaired by Christine S. Lipsmeyer
8:10-8:50
“An Agenda to Theorize and Analyze Verbal and Nonverbal Political Communication”
      Author: Gijs Schumacher (University of Amsterdam)
 9:00-9:40
 “Redefining French politics: does trust matter?”
      Authors: Martial Foucault and Romain Lachat (Sciences Po, Paris)
9:50-10:30
“Global Partisans and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
      Author: Ray Duch (University of Oxford)

Session 2 Chaired by Kirby Goidel
10:40-11:20
“What about us? Nativism, Populism, and Electoral Accountability”
      Authors: Andrea Junqueira (Texas A&M University), Thiago N. Silva (University of Mannheim), Guy D. Whitten (Texas A&M University)
11:30-12:10
“Populist Media Diets”
      Authors: Eline A. de Rooij (Simon Fraser University), Mark Pickup and Dominik A. Stecula(Colorado State University)
12:20-1:00
“Talking Past Each Other: Public Concerns and Political Ideology”
      Author: Andrea Junqueira, Ali Kagalwala, Christine S. Lipsmeyer (Texas A&M University)
1:10-2:00
“Society is broken: validating an anti-establishment index”
      Authors: Nicolas Boyon, Chis Jackson, and Clifford Young (Ipsos)