My research focuses, principally, on how populist, far right and nationalist forms of politics are normalised via narratives of 'common sense'. My book with Routledge, Fathers of the Lega, investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic's oldest surviving political party, the far-right Lega (Nord). My forthcoming edited volume with Liverpool University Press (co-edited with Prof. Ruth Wodak) is provisionally titled 'The Struggle for Common Sense: Discourse, Power, and Democratic Futures'.

Main interests:

• The role of common sense discourse in the normalisation of far-right and reactionary politics 
• The intersection between populism, nationalism and regionalism
• The history of the Italian Lega Nord and far-right politics in Italy

Selected Publications

Book:

Newth, G., 2023. Fathers of the Lega. Populist regionalism and populist nationalism in historical perspective, Routledge

Policy Brief:

Mondon, A., Amery, F., Brown, K., Kendrick, E., Newth, G., Roman A., Yates A. “There must be an alternative - Against mainstream defeatism and towards the rejuvenation of the democratic public space”. FEPS policy study

Peer-reviewed articles:

Newth G, Brown K, and Mondon, A, (2025) Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming Online First

Newth, G. (2021). Rethinking ‘nativism’: beyond the ideational approach. Identities, 30(2), 161–180.

Newth, G. (2021). Populism in abeyance: the survival of populist repertoires of contention in North Italy. Social Movement Studies, 21(4), 511–529. 

Newth, G., & Scopelliti, A. (2023). Common sense, populism, and reactionary politics on Twitter: An analysis of populist far-right common sense narratives between 2008 and 2022. Party Politics, 0(0).

Newth, G. (2024). Populism and nativism in contemporary regionalist and nationalist politics: A minimalist framework for ideologically opposed parties. Politics, 44(1), 3-24.

Newth, G. (2024) ‘Talking about’ the far right and common sense. A case study of Matteo Salvini’s buon senso trope on Twitter (2018–2023). Acta Politica (0-0)

Newth, G., & Maccaferri, M. (2022). From performative anti-fascism to post-fascism: the Lega (Nord)’s political discourse in historical context. Journal of Political Ideologies, 30(1), 175–199.

Brown, K., & Newth, G. (2024). ‘Post-fascism’, or how the far right talks about itself: the 2022 Italian election campaign as a case study. Critical Discourse Studies, 1–21.

Book Reviews:

Newth G (2021). Modern Italy’s Founding Fathers: The Making of a Postwar Republic, by Steven F. White , London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2020, x + 243 pp., $35.96 (paperback), ISBN 9781-4742-1549-7. Modern Italy;26(4):467-468. 

Newth, G. (2024). Iconografia della destra. La propaganda figurativa da Almirante a Meloni: by Luciano Cheles, Roma, Viella, 2023, 296 pp., €27, 55 (hardcover), ISBN 9791254691939. Contemporary Italian Politics, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/23248823.2024.2428531

Newth, G. (2024). Stavrakakis, Y. and Katsambekis, G. (2024). Research Handbook on Populism. Edward Elgar Hardback ISBN: 9781800379688. ebook ISBN: 9781800379695. The Greek Review of Social Research, 163, 243–248.