We can follow these four choices down a total of 16 "decision tree" pathways to reach the particular form of morphological analysis we decide to use.

Or, if you like, we choose between 16 morphological "roles" we can play when we carry out our analyses.

Happy theorising! ✨

Next, we look directly at the denotative meanings or the connotations of ideological and conceptual labels, and we examine how these are determined by their internal logic or their surrounding context.

My argument is quite straightforward.

Whenever we do ideological analysis, we choose between looking at ideologies or at the concepts they are made up of, and we analyse them in either a holistic or disaggregated way.

So pleased and proud that my Editorial on "The apotheosis of conceptual morphology" is now officially out along with the first issue of @jpolideologies.bsky.social of 2025!

Couldn't resist making space for a bit of the Upanishads in the epigraph...

You'll notice we've expanded the number of articles we publish in each issue.

We're very lucky to get a growing volume of top-notch analysis coming our way year after year.

So we're listening to our authors, and taking steps to create a faster pipeline from "online first" to issue allocation.

Delighted to see the latest volume of @jpolideologies.bsky.social out!

We've got articles on topics from nationalism to cosmopolitanism, post-Marxism to political theology.

And true to our mission to cover #ideology in all its global forms, we have case-studies from Canada to Sweden to Tunisia.

Categorizing Salafism with and without Wiktorowicz: grounded reflections from Tunisia Since Wiktorowicz’s landmark article in 2006, students of Salafism have been critical users of his tripartite typology ('purists', 'politicos', and 'Jihadis'). Most efforts have been directed towar...

And finally, moving to North Africa, we close with an article on "Categorizing Salafism with and without Wiktorowicz: grounded reflections from Tunisia" by Théo Blanc @eui-eu.bsky.social

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Recognizing Hindu Orientalism This essay proposes Hindu Orientalism as a central category of analysis across disciplines. It begins by demonstrating how the claim to decolonize India is in fact (re/neo)colonial in many ways as ...

Travelling across to Asia, we have an article on "Recognizing Hindu Orientalism" by Irfan Ahmad (Ibn Haldun University)

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Enlarging the British settler state of Canada: A liberal theory of government and violence This paper examines the writings of George Brown, a leading expansionist and liberal thinker in the British settler state of Canada. Studying George Brown’s thinking as a non-canonical colonial sta...

Moving across the northern border, we have "Enlarging the British settler state of Canada: A liberal theory of government and violence" by Éléna Choquette @uniofcam.bsky.social

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Steve Bannon on ‘productive capitalism’: investigating the economic ideology of the American populist right In this article we explore the economic thinking of the American populist right and the reservoir of ideological tropes that it draws on. We start with Steve Bannon and show how he narrates a binar...

Staying in the US, there is an article on "Steve Bannon on ‘productive capitalism’: investigating the economic ideology of the American populist right" by Jens Steffek and Yannick Lasshof @tuda.bsky.social

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A new kind of personal politics: on the populism of Trump and Sanders While most studies of contemporary populism see it as a reaction to economic and cultural change that appeals to solidarities based on nation, race, or class, this essay argues that the American po...

Moving from Europe to America, we have "A new kind of personal politics: on the populism of Trump and Sanders" by
Kenneth H. Tucker Jr. @mountholyoke.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Behind the narratives of climate change denial and rights of nature: sustainability and the ideological struggle between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in two radical Facebook groups in Sweden In this article, we study two Facebook groups in Sweden that address environmental issues, which adopt opposingly radical positions as it regards sustainability: one Facebook group supports climate...

Then "Behind the narratives of climate change denial and rights of nature: sustainability and the ideological struggle between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in two radical Facebook groups in Sweden" by
Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier @charlesuni.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From performative anti-fascism to post-fascism: the Lega (Nord)’s political discourse in historical context This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on the Lega (Nord) by examining the resemiotisation of the party’s early discourse of ‘performative anti-fascism’ under Umberto Bossi into...

Next we have "From performative anti-fascism to post-fascism: the Lega (Nord)’s political discourse in historical context" by George Newth @uniofbath.bsky.social and Marzia Maccaferri @qmul.ac.uk

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Moderate in power, populist in opposition? Die Linke’s populist communication in the German states The inclusion-moderation thesis suggests that populist parties will be ‘tamed’ by governing, as they must compromise to participate in coalitions. Consequently, they are expected to be more moderat...

Moving into the ideological case-studies in this issue, we start with "Moderate in power, populist in opposition? Die Linke’s populist communication in the German states" by Jan Philipp Thomeczek @uni-muenster.de

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Left-wing identity politics and authoritarian attitudes: a correlational study of social media users Identity politics based on an interpretation of society as a system of power and privilege are increasingly influential within left-wing parties and movements. We used two cross-sectional samples c...

Next comes an empirical study on "Left-wing identity politics and authoritarian attitudes: a correlational study of social media users" by Angelo Fasce (University of Coimbra) and Diego Avendaño (University of Pécs)

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Examining the performance and political influence of far right vanguard leaders: the case of Jonathan Bowden This article examines the life, work, and influence of right-wing artist, writer, and orator Jonathan Bowden. During his life, Bowden was an obscure figure, holding a token position in the British ...

We then have "Examining the performance and political influence of far right vanguard leaders: the case of Jonathan Bowden" by George Hawley (University of Alabama), Richard T. Marcy @uvic.bsky.social, and José Pedro Zúquete (University of Lisbon)

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Understanding cosmopolitanism: a morphological approach This article applies a morphological analytical framework to cosmopolitanism, an ideological tradition committed to universal moral equality and global forms of community. While this concept of glo...

This is followed by an article on "Understanding cosmopolitanism: a morphological approach" by Carl Ritter (Stockholm School of Economics)

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Radical nationalism Radical nationalism is a political ideology centred on tying an imagined people to a bordered territory. It grows from nationalism’s root system into a diversity of political manifestations aimed a...

Next we have "Radical nationalism" by Markus Lundström and Tomas Poletti Lundström @uppsalauniversitet.bsky.social

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Recontesting the Sacred: political theology as ideological method In this paper, we explore the contribution that political theology can make to the study of political ideologies. In foregrounding the interaction between theological and political ways of thinking...

This is followed by "Recontesting the Sacred: political theology as ideological method" by James Martin and Saul Newman @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

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Ethnopluralism and its ambiguities: racism with and without race Ethnopluralism has gained great significance as a political ideology with the rise of right-wing populism in Europe in recent years. It is now the dominant ideology of most radical-right parties an...

Then we have an article on "Ethnopluralism and its ambiguities: racism with and without race" by Ralf Havertz (Keimyung University)

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The polysemy of an empty signifier: the various uses of Ernesto Laclau’s puzzling concept The concept of empty signifier is possibly the most prominent among those developed by Ernesto Laclau. However, despite its success among discourse theorists, this notion remains puzzling. It has b...

Next we have "The polysemy of an empty signifier: the various uses of Ernesto Laclau’s puzzling concept" by Thomás Zicman de Barros @cevipof.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The apotheosis of conceptual morphology Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

We start with an Editorial by @mariusostrowski.bsky.social on "The apotheosis of conceptual morphology", in which he sets out sixteen different ways of carrying out morphological analysis of ideas and ideologies.

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Journal of Political Ideologies Volume 30, Issue 1 of Journal of Political Ideologies

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The first issue of volume 30 of the Journal of Political Ideologies is now available online!

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Talking of @jpolideologies.bsky.social , here's a paper I had there way back

Essentially, can you empirically survey ideology *without* using a right-left spectrum (either 1 or 2 dimensional)?

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Ooh, my favourite academic journal @jpolideologies.bsky.social is now on BlueSky

Give them a follow, as well as Marius (Editor-in-Chief)

The apotheosis of conceptual morphology Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Very pleased to share that my latest Editorial for @jpolideologies.bsky.social is now available online!

"The apotheosis of conceptual morphology", in which I explore no fewer than sixteen different ways we can analyse ideas and ideologies through a morphological lens.

Have a read! #ideology

In Salomé Ietter's article in @jpolideologies.bsky.social, she argues that the "Gilets jaunes represented a space of ingenuity and creativity [...] fostering the reconstitution of the antagonisms suppressed by the neoliberal discourse"

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Back to class? The populism of the ‘Gilets jaunes’ Mobilizing Laclau’s earlier conceptualization of populism as the politicization of class struggle and its overlap with Poulantzas’ relational theory of the capitalist state, this paper proposes to ...

Salome Ietter on #populism and the #Giletsjaunes #yellowvests in @jpolideologies.bsky.social
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