Victor Alembik is a PhD Candidate at the University of Milan (NASP). He is currently the Secretary of the “Youth Association for Indian Studies” (AJEI) in France. He is a founding member of the “OPUS - Young Scholar Initiative on Populism”. His research focuses on the way populism could constitute a new type of political careers for new entrants in the political field. For this, he aims to build a typology of political trajectories and political practices, as well as a textual analysis of political elite’s social media presence regarding their use and acquisition of a populist discourse for electoral campaigning and social media engagement.
Specialization
| Topical | Populism, Political Professionalisation, Political Capital. |
| Regional | South Asia |