Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe

Taggart, Paul

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“…Naime, u teorijskim razmatranjima populizma vrlo se često ističe (primjerice, Canovan, 1999;Meny i Surel, 2002;Taggart, 2004) kako su populisti kritični prema konceptu predstavničke demokracije te kako se zalažu za izravno odlučivanje naroda o važnim političkim pitanjima. Predstavničke institucije populisti povezuju s političkim elitama, pa je za njih postojeći oblik političkoga predstavništva zapravo proces korumpiranja i pervertiranja narodne volje.…”

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What is Populism and How to Explore It?

Šalaj

Grbeša

2017

Drustvena istrazivanja

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Berto ŠALAJ, Marijana GRBEŠA Fakultet političkih znanosti, Zagreb UDK: 316.334.3(497.5) 329.7(497.5) Pregledni rad Primljeno: 12. 12. 2016. Populizam je kao pojam široko prisutan u hrvatskom javnom diskursu, no u znanstvenom diskursu taj relevantni i aktualni fenomen skromno je zastupljen. Nastojeći potaknuti znanstveni interes za problematiku populizma u Hrvatskoj, ovaj rad donosi pregled i sintezu najvažnijih uvida iz recentne literature o populizmu, pri čemu se usredotočuje na dva važna pitanja. Prvo se odnosi na pristupe populizmu, odnosno na analizu razumijevanja populizma kao političkoga fenomena, a drugo na metodologiju istraživanja populizma. Autori smatraju kako je pristup koji populizam razumijeva kao "slabu" političku ideologiju istraživački potencijalno najproduktivniji. U dijelu koji se bavi metodologijom istraživanja populizma rad se usredotočuje na problem konceptualizacije i operacionalizacije. Autori zagovaraju konceptualizaciju, prema kojoj je populizam politička metaideologija koju karakterizira istodobna prisutnost dvaju definirajućih obilježja: pozitivno vrednovanje naroda i difuzni politički antielitizam. Pritom autori ističu kako se razumijevanjem populizma kao metaideologije otvara prostor za jasno artikuliranje teze o postojanju više tipova populizma, što smatraju jednom od najpropulzivnijih tema u budućim istraživanjima.

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What is Populism and How to Explore It?

Šalaj

Grbeša

2017

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“…Within this mobilization, people's mind and view has blurred by degenerated political systems, discontented intellectuals and stakeholders. In that situation urgency, simplification and clarity slogans, which are highly essential for populists, holds and creates prudent solutions in a way everyone can understand (Taggart, 2004). For this comprehension, political actors will need media as the mediator for them to reach people and a charismatic leader figure who is going to be marketed through media and political communication strategies.…”

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Media as the Incentive or Mediator of Populism: A Research on the Media Populism Strategies and Factors of Political Power in Turkey

Bulut¹,

Keskin²

2016

IRD

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Social sciences positioned populism as a strategy to secure power/strength, a genuine political way, but besides it is positioned as an ideology, which divides society into two homogenous, antagonistic groups, brings society and elites face to face. Furthermore it is defined, as an ideology that wants politics to represent the society's general will.It is accepted that media and its production "logic" provides appropriate tools for populism development. In Turkey, which is governed by neoconservative and neo-liberal power, media populism has been the most used political communication strategy in recent years. Communication strategies, when there is a need to arouse and direct interest of the public opinion and for agenda setting processes; complexity, reduction, personalization, accusation, sentimentalizing, targeting, dramatization, alienation and creation of pseudo events, are frequently used. Most of the political actors appeal to media populism when they need to lean on to the society, disseminate the charismatic leader discourse, reduce the value of the discourses belonging to opponents, prove that they are representing the common goods and benefits. This study relates to direct-indirect practices of government's populism strategies.Within this context, creating legitimacy on political power by media populism in Turkey is assumed to be the most powerful method.Keywords: populism, media populism, political communication IntroductionSocial sciences positioned populism as a strategy to secure the power/strength, in other words as a genuine political way, but besides, it is positioned as an ideology, which divides society into two homogenous, antagonistic groups, brings society and degenerated elites face to face. Furthermore it is defined, as an ideology that wants politics to represent the society's general will. Researches refer to this concept's ideological, organizational and communicational extents, whereas it is accepted that media and its production "logic" provides appropriate tools for the development of populism. In terms of political communication, the relationship between media communication styles and populism's conditions, rules and logic is an attractive research area.The most vital questions/problems here are whether media is the tool of populism or the incentive of populism In contemporary world, populism is more and more present in party's political discourse while they are attempting to achieve their goals regardless of their ideological orientation or heritage. This transformation of political actors are also transforming the concept of populism from ideological level to a mean for a massive winning of votes and support in political-electoral campaigns. The growth of the relevance of global politics, state's reshuffled concepts and increased frequencies of transcendent political processes are shaping other kinds of grounds and scopes for the massive rhetoric policies in the 21st century (Latifi, 2015). Populism appears as an ideology, which shapes democracy and democracy practices of govern...

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“…For populism, 'the centrepiece of identity politics is the construction of 'the people' or the in-group'. (Woods, 2014: 12) The populist argues that politics should be an expression of the general will of the people (Mudde, 2007;Taggart, 2004), and always 'justifies its actions by appealing to and identifying with the people' (Jagers and Walgrave, 2007: 322). Populism generally politicizes identity, and claims to represent those who are true and honest.…”

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Understanding Enemy Images in Central and Eastern European Politics

Gerő

Płucienniczak²,

Kluknavská

et al. 2017

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In recent years, Europe has experienced a rise in politics based on antagonism, often discussed from the perspectives of populism and the mainstreaming of the ideologies of the radical right. In this study, we argue that there is a need for an interdisciplinary, theoretically broader and more empirically focused approach that fosters understanding of these developments. To explore the causal factors, we focus on the enemy images that are constructed and diffused by politicians, and their specific historical and structural contexts. The paper thus has two main components: First, we review what political theory, research on populism and on the extreme right and social psychology say about the functions of the use and development of enemy images. Second, we highlight the contextual factors that we consider make the success of a politics based on enemy images more likely in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe

Cited by 462 publications

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What is Populism and How to Explore It?

What is Populism and How to Explore It?

Media as the Incentive or Mediator of Populism: A Research on the Media Populism Strategies and Factors of Political Power in Turkey

Understanding Enemy Images in Central and Eastern European Politics

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