Manuela Caiani is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) of Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, right wing and left wing populism in Europe, social movements, radical right politics and qualitative methods of social research. Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science, un the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, Belgium. His research interests focus on Europeanisation, comparative welfare state politics, comparative social policy and populism.

• Introduction: Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises Manuela Caiani and Paolo Graziano1. National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western EuropeDaniele Caramani and Luca Manucci2. Populism in election times: a comparative analysis of 11 countries in Western Europe Laurent Bernhard and Hanspeter Kriesi3. Shooting the fox? UKIP’s populism in the post-Brexit eraSimon Usherwood4. How to stay populist? The Front National and the changing French party system Yves Surel5. Beyond left and right: the eclectic populism of the Five Star MovementLorenzo Mosca and Filippo Tronconi6. Economic crisis and the variety of populist response: evidence from Greece, Portugal and SpainMarco Lisi, Iván Llamazares and Myrto Tsakatika7. Assessing the diversity of anti-establishment and populist politics in Central and Eastern EuropeSarah Engler, Bartek Pytlas and Kevin Deegan-Krause

Manuela Caiani is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) of Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, right wing and left wing populism in Europe, social movements, radical right politics and qualitative methods of social research. Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science, un the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, Belgium. His research interests focus on Europeanisation, comparative welfare state politics, comparative social policy and populism.

• Introduction: Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises Manuela Caiani and Paolo Graziano1. National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western EuropeDaniele Caramani and Luca Manucci2. Populism in election times: a comparative analysis of 11 countries in Western Europe Laurent Bernhard and Hanspeter Kriesi3. Shooting the fox? UKIP’s populism in the post-Brexit eraSimon Usherwood4. How to stay populist? The Front National and the changing French party system Yves Surel5. Beyond left and right: the eclectic populism of the Five Star MovementLorenzo Mosca and Filippo Tronconi6. Economic crisis and the variety of populist response: evidence from Greece, Portugal and SpainMarco Lisi, Iván Llamazares and Myrto Tsakatika7. Assessing the diversity of anti-establishment and populist politics in Central and Eastern EuropeSarah Engler, Bartek Pytlas and Kevin Deegan-Krause

Manuela Caiani is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) of Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, right wing and left wing populism in Europe, social movements, radical right politics and qualitative methods of social research. Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science, un the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, Belgium. His research interests focus on Europeanisation, comparative welfare state politics, comparative social policy and populism.

• Introduction: Understanding varieties of populism in times of crises Manuela Caiani and Paolo Graziano1. National past and populism: the re-elaboration of fascism and its impact on right-wing populism in Western EuropeDaniele Caramani and Luca Manucci2. Populism in election times: a comparative analysis of 11 countries in Western Europe Laurent Bernhard and Hanspeter Kriesi3. Shooting the fox? UKIP’s populism in the post-Brexit eraSimon Usherwood4. How to stay populist? The Front National and the changing French party system Yves Surel5. Beyond left and right: the eclectic populism of the Five Star MovementLorenzo Mosca and Filippo Tronconi6. Economic crisis and the variety of populist response: evidence from Greece, Portugal and SpainMarco Lisi, Iván Llamazares and Myrto Tsakatika7. Assessing the diversity of anti-establishment and populist politics in Central and Eastern EuropeSarah Engler, Bartek Pytlas and Kevin Deegan-Krause