Different Types of Right-Wing Populist Discourse in Government and Opposition: The Case of Italy

Bobba, Giuliano; McDonnell, Duncan

doi:10.1080/13608746.2016.1211239

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“…Various studies have investigated the question of whether members of populist parties actually communicate in a more populist manner. Both individual country case studies (e.g., Bernhard 2017;Bobba and McDonnell 2016) and some multicountry comparisons (e.g., Bracciale and Martella 2017; Van Kessel 2015) have found supporting evidence for this. However, these studies lack a systematic comparison with members of nonpopulist parties.…”

Section: Populist Affinity Of Certain Groups Of Politiciansmentioning

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Favorable Opportunity Structures for Populist Communication: Comparing Different Types of Politicians and Issues in Social Media, Television and the Press

Ernst

Esser

Blassnig

et al. 2018

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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The aim of this study is to explore favorable opportunity structures for populist communication of politicians in Western democracies. We analyze the content and style of 2,517 statements from 103 politicians from six countries (France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States) who differ in their party affiliation (populist versus nonpopulist) and hierarchical position (backbencher vs. frontbencher). To learn more about their media strategies and chances of success, we investigate four communication channels (Facebook, Twitter, talk shows, and news media) that systematically differ in their degree of journalistic intervention and examine fourteen often-raised topics that differ in their suitability for populist mobilization. Our content analysis shows the highest probability of populist communication comes from (1) members of populist parties and (2) backbenchers who address (3) mobilizable issues in (4) social media or newspaper articles. We conclude by explaining why populists have become so successful in getting their messages into newspapers.

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Favorable Opportunity Structures for Populist Communication: Comparing Different Types of Politicians and Issues in Social Media, Television and the Press

Ernst

Esser

Blassnig

et al. 2018

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…This is all the more true in the present hybrid media ecosystem. According to the existing literature, three of these parties are considered populist: the Five Stars Movement because of its historical opposition to traditional parties and media, regarded as a single corrupt entity (Bordignon and Ceccarini, 2013); the Northern League due to its political message against political and economic élites and its constant appeal to the 'people' identified on ethnic bases (Albertazzi and McDonnell, 2008) so much so that it is called 'an almost ideal-type incarnation of populism' (Tarchi, 2015a, b: p 243); and Forza Italia and Silvio Berlusconi, these being defined as neoliberal populists (Bobba and McDonnell, 2016), often 'accusing the elite (i.e., mainstream parties and trade unions) of frustrating the hard-working common people with unnecessary laws and high taxes' (Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017: p 35).…”

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Socially mediated populism: the communicative strategies of political leaders on Facebook

2018

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Populism has been defined in many different ways, mostly in regard to political ideology and political dynamics, but only in recent years in relation to communication variables. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the identification of a socially mediated type of populist communication profoundly affected by the specific nature of social media. It presents and discusses empirical evidence on Italy's populist and non-populist leaders that use Facebook regularly, and highlights the extent of the overflow of populist communication patterns and ideological features into mainstream political communication. Populist ideology fragments emerged in Italian leaders' Facebook posts, thus leading to two main conclusions: first, populism appears to be 'endemic' in the Italian online facebooksphere; second, political actors-even non-populist ones-do not disdain the adoption of typical populist rhetorics.

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“…Bale (2013) explains that the extent to which the British right has couched its approach in populist rhetoric has varied over time, in accordance with the salience of immigration in public opinion, the personal style of the party leader, and whether the party is in government or opposition. This last point is also made by Bobba and McDonnell (2016), who studied right-wing populism in Italy and assert that populist discourse varies among different parties and between government and the opposition. Ruzza and Fella (2011) identify several populist elements among Italian right-wing parties and connect them and their success to the parties' varying political and cultural opportunities.…”

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Far-Right Extremism and Populist Rhetoric: Greece and Cyprus during an Era of Crisis

Charalambous¹,

Christoforou

2018

South European Society and Politics

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Research has highlighted a strong association between farright parties and populism, although this is often taken as concerning the softer radical right rather than fully fledged extremism. Further, there is limited analysis on how far-right parties in different countries employ populist rhetoric. In order to explore the relationship between the extreme right and populism, this article conceptualises and categorises the populism of the Greek GD (Χρυσή Αυγή-Golden Dawn), and that of its Cypriot sister party ELAM (Εθνικό Λαϊκό Μέτωπο-National Popular Front), on the basis of a content analysis of press releases. First, existing theses about the relationship between the far right and populism are qualified, illustrating how extreme right parties (including the most extreme among them) utilise populist rhetoric. Second, patterns and variations in populist rhetoric are identified between extreme right parties based on context.

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Different Types of Right-Wing Populist Discourse in Government and Opposition: The Case of Italy

Cited by 30 publications

References 28 publications

Favorable Opportunity Structures for Populist Communication: Comparing Different Types of Politicians and Issues in Social Media, Television and the Press

Favorable Opportunity Structures for Populist Communication: Comparing Different Types of Politicians and Issues in Social Media, Television and the Press

Socially mediated populism: the communicative strategies of political leaders on Facebook

Far-Right Extremism and Populist Rhetoric: Greece and Cyprus during an Era of Crisis

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