“…The study of populism is arguably in the midst of a ‘localist turn’. Where scholars once prioritized the national and, to a lesser extent, transnational in analyzing populist politics (Moffitt, 2016; Eatwell & Goodwin, 2018; McDonnell & Werner, 2019; De Cleen et al, 2020), recent research has begun to reckon with local, regional, and municipal cleavages in populist support (Katz & Nowak, 2017; Fitzgerald, 2018; Rossi, 2018; Economou & Ghazarian, 2018; Weinstein, 2019; Heinisch et al, 2020; Chou, 2020; Drápalová & Wegrich, 2020; Paxton, 2020; Rivero et al, 2020; Silver et al, 2020; Macedo, 2021; Albertazzi & Zulianello, 2021). This research note emerges out of a key observation: while scholars have developed robust accounts of populism at the national and transnational levels, a systematic examination of what populist politics look like at the local level remains lacking.…”