A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism

Abromeit, John

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“…However, they say less about the content of these ideologies: why certain myths and symbols become prominent, where they come from, why they reverberate, or why they vary across countries. As others have pointed out, the underlying issue here is that structuralist explanations are ultimately "contentless" (Abromeit 2017;Halikiopoulou, Mock, and Vasilopoulou 2013, 111).…”

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#Nationalism: the ethno-nationalist populism of Donald Trump’s Twitter communication

Schertzer

Woods

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In this article, we explore the ethno-nationalist populism of Donald Trump's Twitter communication during the 2016 presidential campaign. We draw on insights from ethno-symbolisma perspective within nationalism studiesto analyse all 5,515 tweets sent by Trump during the campaign. We find that ethno-nationalist and populist themes were by far the most important component of Trump's tweets, and that these themes built upon longstanding myths and symbols of an ethnic conception of American identity. In sum, Trump's tweets depicted a virtuous white majority being threatened by several groups of immoral outsiders, who were identified by their foreignness, their religion, and their self-interestedness. The struggle against these groups was framed as a mission to restore America to a mythical golden ageto "Make America Great Again."

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#Nationalism: the ethno-nationalist populism of Donald Trump’s Twitter communication

Schertzer

Woods

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Significant efforts have also recently been made to facilitate comparisons across case studies and thereby draw generalizable ideas. However, genuine interdisciplinary works are lacking and the literature remains divided (Abromeit, 2017).…”

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Right-wing Populism in a Global Perspective: The Necessity for an Integrative Theory

Hosseini,

Saha,

Adamczyk

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change

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“…Much of the research on populism focused on the tactics and success of political parties or leaders and developing an adequate definition for the term (Akkerman, Mudde, & Zaslove, 2014). Thus, populist attitudes are a new domain of inquiry in the social sciences (see Rooduijn, 2019), and populism scholars have called for more interdisciplinary work with social and political psychology (Abromeit, 2017;Rensmann, 2017). Recently, a burgeoning interdisciplinary literature has linked populist attitudes with psychological characteristics like social values (Norris & Inglehart, 2019), personality traits (Vasilopoulos & Jost, 2020), and collective narcissism (Marchlewska et al, 2018).…”

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The social axioms of populism: Investigating the relationship between culture and populist attitudes

Jami

Kemmelmeier

2021

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Populism is on the rise with various movements having electoral breakthroughs. Most social-science research on populism has focused primarily on party tactics and rhetoric, and a definition for the term itself; only recently has populism emerged as a psychological construct. We contribute to this growing literature with two studies (n = 456 and n = 5,837) that investigated the cultural worldviews underpinned in populist attitudes. Using the social axioms model, an etic framework for assessing people’s generalized social expectations, we linked populist attitudes to universal dimensions of culture. We found that higher levels of social cynicism and social flexibility, and to a lesser extent, lower levels of fate control and reward for application predicted populist attitudes. These findings indicate that people who endorse populist attitudes, across a range of contexts, are cynical regarding the social world, believe in alternative solutions to social dilemmas, but may also perceive a world that is difficult to control and potentially unfair. The discussion focuses on the cultural forces that may drive or facilitate populist attitudes across context and time.

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A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism

Abstract: This is a review article of the following five recent studies on populism: 1) Ruth Wodak's

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#Nationalism: the ethno-nationalist populism of Donald Trump’s Twitter communication

#Nationalism: the ethno-nationalist populism of Donald Trump’s Twitter communication

Right-wing Populism in a Global Perspective: The Necessity for an Integrative Theory

The social axioms of populism: Investigating the relationship between culture and populist attitudes

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