How Turkey’s repetitive elections affected the populist tone in the discourses of the Justice and Development Party Leaders

Erçetin, Tuğçe; Erdoğan, Emre

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“…The populist logic encourages the formation of antagonistic camps that hold a positive image in favour of the ingroup (Bos et al., 2020; Laclau, 2005; Mudde, 2004; Schulz et al., 2018). For instance, studies conducted in Turkey show that Erdogan has been frequently using the themes of “elites versus ordinary people” as well as “us and others”; thus, strategically promoting the opposition of Turkish society to others who are presented as hostile to national sovereignty and defining them as homogeneous categories (Erdoğan et al., 2018; Erçetin & Erdoğan, 2018).…”

Section: Social Identity Approachmentioning

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An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership

Uysal

Jurstakova

Uluşahin

2022

Social & Personality Psych

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In recent years, the questions of what populism is and how populist leaders mobilize their followers have been the subject of extensive debate. While the social psychology literature holds unique theoretical tools that can be used to explain leader-follower dynamics, these have not yet been applied to understand populism and populist leadership. In this paper, we aim to discuss populism as a social-psychological concept and provide a comprehensive approach to examine the interactions between populist leaders and followers by using the identity leadership model (seePsychology of Leadership, Haslam et al., 2020). Accordingly, we propose an integrative model in which we suggest that populism should be treated as a social-psychological concept based on (i) strong ingroup identification; (ii) interactive leadership processes that open spaces to followers for enacting their ingroup identity that end up with mobilization against vertical (e.g., elites) and horizontal (e.g., minorities, refugees, opponents) outgroups; (iii) leader's ingroup prototypicality and identity entrepreneurship that is boosted by using shared grievances, narratives of collective victimhood, and the destabilization of mainstream opponent leaders. Furthermore, by discussing real-world examples and recent studies, we aim to show how the content of what it means to be 'us' and what is seen as moral to 'us' can be shaped by populist leaders for mobilization.

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Section: Social Identity Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership

Uysal

Jurstakova

Uluşahin

2022

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Despite their many significant differences, 8 the style, discursive, and thin-ideology approaches constitute a family. Consequently, many scholars apply their insights in melded form, without carefully distinguishing between them (Alvares & Dahlgren 2016); alternatively, even when they are distinguished in literature reviews, the distinctions lose much of their significance during the analysis of cases (Erçetin & Erdo gan 2018). In the end, these approaches constitute the subjectivist pole of populism studies.…”

Section: Discursive Ideological and Performative Accountsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction

Tuğal

2021

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Studies of populism have shifted from substantive to discursive/performative and institutional perspectives in recent decades. This shift resolved some long-standing problems but insulated the analysis of populism from theoretical and methodological debates in the social sciences. Theoretical restrictions have gone hand in hand with geographical neglect: The near-exclusive focus on the United States, Europe, and Latin America reinforces the blind spots of these existing approaches. An integration of overlooked regions holds the potential for theoretical reconstruction, even though such comparative broadening could as well simply reproduce the persistent impasses. Moreover, post-2016 developments have induced a return to substantive issues, throwing into sharp relief what populism studies have been missing during the past decades. The main challenge today is synthesizing socioeconomic analyses with institutionalist and discourse-theoretical advances without falling into eclecticism. Breaking away from the entrenched regional orientations to embrace a more global-historical methodology could help such an endeavor. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 47 is July 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…Relatedly, several studies examining the populist discourse of the Justice and Development Party, which has been in power since 2003, argued that the leaders of the party mainly expressed “us–them distinction,” “in-group superiority,” and “external scapegoats” (Ercetin and Erdogan, 2018: 382, 395). Ercetin and Erdogan (2018: 389) even noted that the leaders use paranoiac statements on foreign countries and refer to foreign names like “Hans” and “George” as dangerous actors to national unity and national will. Following the results from this study, one can expect that these populist discourse used by political leaders might affect police cadets’ attitudes toward foreigners negatively.…”

Section: Limitations and Conclusionmentioning

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Sources of prejudice among police cadets toward foreigners: A test of intergroup threat theory

Demirkol¹,

Nalla

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Literature in policing has mostly overlooked the antecedents of prejudice, especially those who choose a police career. Such a choice is important given the results of prejudice that might cause police misconduct toward regular migrants, irregular migrants, and refugees. This study aims to examine the factors that explain prejudice among police cadets toward other ethnic groups. This study’s data come from a survey of 725 police cadets in three police vocational schools in Turkey. We employed structural equation modeling to examine the antecedents of prejudice toward foreigners within the framework of intergroup threat theory. More specifically, in this study, we included factors such as anomie, authoritarianism, and nationalism and participants’ symbolic and realistic threat perceptions in shaping prejudice toward foreigners. The findings suggest that police cadets’ realistic threat perception was the most salient antecedent of prejudice toward foreigners.

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How Turkey’s repetitive elections affected the populist tone in the discourses of the Justice and Development Party Leaders

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership

An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership

Populism Studies: The Case for Theoretical and Comparative Reconstruction

Sources of prejudice among police cadets toward foreigners: A test of intergroup threat theory

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