<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">just forwarding a message about an upcoming talk that might be of interest --MB</div><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:nik" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:416px" aria-controls=":nzd" aria-expanded="false"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,177,225);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,177,225);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(70,177,225);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Political Authoritarianism and Support for Populism in Europe, the United States and Latin America</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,107,36)"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:28pt;font-family:Garamond,serif">Arman Azedi*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Populist political parties are attracting an ever-growing share of support worldwide. This project seeks to enhance our understanding of the values and beliefs that drive ordinary citizens to back left-wing and right-wing populists by investigating the role of political authoritarianism and anti-democratic views. Some scholars propose that populist ideology inherently contains divisive and intolerant tenets that conflict with principles necessary to maintaining democracy. Focusing on three separate political contexts, Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America, the project reveals that political authoritarianism is associated with support for populists depending on the ideology of the populist in question. Citizens that support right-wing populists consistently display disproportionately high levels of political authoritarianism and disregard for democratic norms, while the left-wing populist support base does not. The findings ultimately challenge monolithic portrayals of populism as antidemocratic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Wednesday, October 16, 11 am-12:20pm</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Interdisciplinary Studies Room North (INTN), Room 3023</span></b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sponsored by the University of California-Riverside Political Science and Sociology Departments, the Global Studies Program and the Institute for Research on World Systems</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:24.5333px;font-family:Garamond,serif">*<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Arman Azedi is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on World Systems at UCR. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California-Irvine in 2024.</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>