Following the recent publication of RECLAIM’s manuscript “Post-truth populism: A new political paradigm“, edited by Saul Newman and Maximilian Conrad, TEPSA produced an infographic exploring the links between post-truth politics and populism in Europe.

The book analyses the convergence between ‘post-truth’ political culture and the politics of populism. The premise is that there is an intrinsic link between post-truth discourse (referring to mis/disinformation, ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’, conspiracy theories and the general distrust of expert knowledge and official sources of information) and the central narrative of populism, which opposes the ‘common sense’ wisdom of ordinary honest people to the ‘expert knowledge’ of duplicitous technocratic elites.

But, can post-truth politics be viewed as a new political paradigm? This infographic responds to this question by summing up the book’s main arguments.

Read the book in open access by clicking here and download our infographic to know more.