Populism with a Ph.D: education levels and populist leaders

Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska; Goktepe, Katherine

doi:10.1080/2158379x.2021.1904366

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“…The noted study on HPV vaccination in Sweden ( 38 ) was conducted in 2007, before the introduction of the school-based, free-of-charge HPV vaccination program, and the association has been interpreted ( 18 ) as likely being due to highly educated parents being more cautious regarding a recently introduced vaccine. While this may be so, today vaccine hesitancy is often associated with populist movements ( 70 ) positioning themselves against a perceived elite and therefore possibly speaking largely to groups with lower socioeconomic status ( 71 ). Meanwhile, the understanding of vaccine hesitancy as being more prevalent in more affluent groups has been posited as resulting from limited research ( 25 ).…”

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Attitudes Toward HPV Vaccination in Sweden: A Survey Study

Wemrell

Gunnarsson

2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundWhile HPV vaccination uptake in Sweden is quite high, at around 80%, vaccine hesitancy remains an issue in countries throughout Europe. The latter can be related to a contemporary context of increased contestation of expert knowledge and of a large share of information on health-related issues including vaccination today being sought via the internet. Still, there is a paucity of recent research on attitudes toward the HPV vaccine in a larger sample of the population in Sweden. This survey study assesses such attitudes and any correlations between vaccine hesitancy and sociodemographic characteristics, trust in healthcare and other societal institutions, and evaluation of the reliability of different sources of information.MethodsThe validated survey questionnaire was distributed to adult women in Sweden (n = 2,000), via a nationally representative web panel. The response rate was 37%. Aside from descriptive statistics, associations between vaccine hesitancy and sociodemographic and other variables were computed using logistic regressions and expressed as odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).ResultsOur results show a positive attitude toward HPV vaccination overall. Still, some degree of HPV vaccine hesitancy was indicated by 33.8% of the respondents, and more pronounced hesitancy by 7.6%. Regarding vaccination in general, a very positive attitude was indicated by 55%. HPV vaccine hesitancy was associated with low education and low income and strongly associated with a lack of confidence in healthcare and other societal institutions. It was also correlated with a self-assessed lack of access to, and ability to assess the origin, quality and reliability of, information about the HPV vaccine.ConclusionEfforts to provide transparent information about HPV vaccination should be combined with healthcare providers being open to discuss vaccine concerns with patients and avoiding practices that do not promote trust.

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Attitudes Toward HPV Vaccination in Sweden: A Survey Study

Wemrell

Gunnarsson

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…We posit that in democratic societies, the endeavor of “aping of the people” is incarnated by highly personalistic leaders and takes the form of what Ostiguy (2017) calls the “flaunting of the low” (p. 1). Here the sociological low is understood as the sociopolitical traits (manners, demeanors, vocabulary, taste, relations to the public and laws, accent, dress code) that are indicative of the common and poor people (Ostiguy & Moffitt, 2021, p. 51), but which can be at odds with the actual social class of the populist bearer (Brühwiler & Goktepe, 2021).…”

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Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India

Martelli

Jaffrelot

2023

Political Psychology

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Minimal understandings of populism focus on measuring explicit stances of antielitism and people centrism. What remains poorly understood is the way less overt forms of populist rhetoric enable leaders to emulate the language of common citizens to achieve electoral success. This article suggests that the study of the populist discourse also requires taking into account their implicit occurrences, that is, those conveying connect, closeness, commonness, and similarity with ordinary people. Expressed through performances of “layman likeness,” they enable populist politicians to dissociate from traditional ruling elites while enabling people leaders' identifications. Using a novel 261‐million‐word dataset of Indian political discourses—including the speeches of 11 Prime Ministers—to proxy such identifications, we argue that populist leaders rely on a mimesis of the common people. Three core mimetic speech items are quantified: intimacy, disintermediation, and simplicity. We use a replicable corpus‐contextual multiword collocation technique to populate lexicons of pretested psychometric profiles as well as a threefold validation method. The analysis finds that current Prime Minister Narendra Modi communicates mimetic identification around his persona, indexing the linguistic markers of his stylistic, ideological, and institutional populist politics. We indicate that our context‐aware method could also be of use to study the cross‐regional variability of mimetic populism.

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“…What is decisive is who is believed in the public space on the basis of what arguments or evidence and how majorities emerge. And whenever there is mention of 'populism', the level of education alone makes no difference (Brühwiler & Goktepe, 2021). It is also becoming clear today that the western concept of a liberal education free of tuition that was distributed after World War II has never had global respect and has even been debated inside democracies.…”

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Populism, Public Education, and a Short Look at the War

Oelkers

2022

On Education. Journal for Research and Debate

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For the use as an analytical concept, 'populism' means strategic simplification in discourse and decision-making. In this article, populism is treated as a threat to democracy. Autocratic political systems are using populist rhetoric and/or propaganda for their aim of repression as is shown with a look at the Ukrainian war. Finally, the article is concerned with the future need for qualitative education in democratic societies. This cannot be done with populist concepts in education itself.

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Populism with a Ph.D: education levels and populist leaders

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Attitudes Toward HPV Vaccination in Sweden: A Survey Study

Attitudes Toward HPV Vaccination in Sweden: A Survey Study

Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India

Populism, Public Education, and a Short Look at the War

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