Nils Ringe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Lucio Rennó is Professor of Political Science at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.

1. Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19, 2. The United States: Trump, Populism, and the Pandemic, 3. Mexico: A Politically Effective Populist Pandemic Response, 4. Brazil: "We Are All Going To Die One Day", 5. Argentina: Peronism and Inclusionary Populist Adaptation to the Pandemic, 6. The United Kingdom: The Pandemic and the Tale of Two Populist Parties, 7. Spain: Different Populist Responses with Similar (and Limited) Outcomes, 8. Italy: The Diverging Strategies of the Populist Radical Right During the Pandemic, 9. Poland: When Populists Must Manage Crisis Instead of Performing It, 10. Hungary: Creeping Authoritarianism in the Name of Pandemic Response, 11. Turkey: Governing the Unpredictable Through Market Imperative, 12. Indonesia: From the Pandemic Crisis to Democratic Decline, 13. India: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly Consequences of India's Pandemic Response, 14. The Philippines: Penal Populism and Pandemic Response, 15. Russia: Muddling Through Populism and the Pandemic, 16. Nicaragua: Populist Performance and Authoritarian Practice During Covid-19, 17. Venezuela: A Populist Legacy and Authoritarian Response, 18. Tanzania: Narrating the Eradication of Covid-19, 19. South Africa: From Populist Inertia to Insurrection, 20. France: Balancing Respectability and Radicalization in a Pandemic, 21. Germany: The Alternative for Germany in the Covid-19 Pandemic, 22. Belgium: Against the Government and its Parties, (Not So Much) with the People, 23. The Netherlands: Divergent Paths for the Populist Radical Right, 24. Conclusion