Populism and Passions: Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity

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Paolo Cossarini is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Studies at the University of Trento Italy. He previously taught Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University UK. He has held visiting positions at the Paris Institute of Political Studies Queen Mary University of London and has been a member of the research project The political consequences of the economic crisis funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. His research focuses on democratic theory and populism Spanish politics and nationalism and the role of emotions in protest movements and political communication as well as border and migration studies. He has published in Global Discourse European Political Science and Revista de Estudios Políticos among other journalsFernando Vallespín is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Spain. He has directed the Department of Political Science and International Relations and the Centro de Teoría Política at the same University. He has also been a postdoctoral Fulbright researcher at Harvard University and has been visiting professor at the universities of Frankfurt Heidelberg Veracruz and Malaysia. He has published several books and over one hundred academic papers and chapters. Additionally he was President of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) between May 2004 and May 2008 Academic Director of the Fundación Ortega-Marañón (2012-2015) President of the Spanish Association of Political Studies (2013-2015) and member of IPSAs Executive Council (2014-2016).