Populism & far-right
Valli, C., Gravelle, T. B., Nai., A., Medeiros, M., Murri, C., & Eugster, B. (2025). The Mosque Next Door: How the Visibility of Mosques Influences Support for the Far-Right and Anti-Immigration Initiatives. Political Behavior. doi: /10.1007/s11109-025-10021-x
Mancosu, M., Bobba, G., Seddone, A., Vegetti, F., & Nai, A. (2024). Investigating media populism worldwide. Journalism Studies. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2024.2415423
Nai, A., & Maier, J. (2024). Polarized populists. Dark campaigns, affective polarization, and the moderating role of populist attitudes. American Behavioral Scientist. doi: 10.1177/000276422412420
Vargiu, C., Nai, A., & Valli, C. (2024). Uncivil Yet Persuasive? Testing the Persuasiveness of Political Incivility and the Moderating Role of Populist Attitudes and Personality Traits. Political Psychology. doi: 10.1111/pops.12969
Casiraghi, M., Curini, L., & Nai, A. (2023). Populism in the Eye of the Beholder? A Conjoint Experiment on Citizens’ Identification of Populists. European Journal of Political Research. doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12589
Nai, A., Young, E., & Bos, L. (2022). Pop Populism: Ethno-Traditionalism Beyond National Borders and the Populist Radical Right. Acta Politica. doi: 10.1057/s41269-022-00262-7
Nai. A. (2022). Populist voters like dark politicians. Personality and Individual Differences. 187, 111412.
Gravelle, T. B., Medeiros, M., Nai, A. (2021). In the Shadow of the Tower: Spatial proximity to mosques, visible diversity, and support for the radical right. Political Geography. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102499
Nai, A., Medeiros, M., Maier, M., Maier, J., (2021). Euroscepticism and the use of negative, uncivil and emotional campaigns in the 2019 European Parliament Election: A Winning Combination. European Union Politics. doi: 10.1177/14651165211035675
Nai, A., & Toros, E. (2020). The peculiar personality of strongmen: Big Five and Dark Triad traits of political leaders worldwide. Political Research Exchange, 2(1): 1-24.
Gerstlé, J., & Nai, A. (2019). Negativity, emotionality and populist rhetoric in election campaigns worldwide, and their effects on media attention and electoral success. European Journal of Communication, 34(4) 410–444.
Nai, A., & Martinez i Coma, F. (2019). The personality of populists: Provocateurs, charismatic leaders, or drunken dinner guests? West European Politics, 42(7), 1337-1367.
Nai, A., Martinez i Coma, F., and Maier, J. (2018). Donald Trump, populism, and the age of extremes: Comparing the personality traits and campaigning style of Trump and other leaders worldwide. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 49(3), 609–643.
* recipient of the Top Cited Paper Award 2019-2020
* recipient of the Wiley Top Downloaded Paper Award 2018-2019
Nai, A. (2018). Fear and loathing in populist campaigns? Comparing the communication style of populists and non-populists in elections worldwide. Journal of Political Marketing. doi: 10.1080/15377857.2018.1491439