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Speaker: Isabela Mares

How Mainstream Parties Fight Back Against Extremists: Explaining the Choice Among Strategies of Democratic Defense

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Date: Jan 21, 2026
Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Isabela Mares
Yale University
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Isabela Mares offers a long run historical analysis of how mainstream parties attempt to curb the electoral advance of extremist competitors. [more]

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