Growth of Populism in the Political Mainstream

​Jakob Schwörer is a research fellow at the Institute for Political Science at the Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany) and teaches the political system of Germany, party politics and populism. His research focuses on political parties, populist and nativist communication as well as religiously framed discourses of political actors in a comparative perspective.In 2016, his book "Populismi. Il Movimento 5 Stelle e la Alternativa per la Germania" was nominated for the National Award of the Italian Book Association (AIL) in the category Political and Social Sciences.

• Chapter 1​: Introduction: Populistisation of mainstream parties?.- Chapter 2: Theoretical-conceptual framework.- Chapter 3: Study design and analytical approach.- Chapter 4:Contamination of mainstream parties' messages? shifting degrees of communicative content.- Chapter 5: From degrees to content: The meaning of communicative content and emerging discourses.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.