Do Populists Talk the Same? A Multilevel Analysis of the Northern League and Five Star Movements’ Positions on Immigration and the European Union

Carlotti, Benedetta; Gianfreda, Stella

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“…In Table 3, we report the most predictive features as recognized by our leaning classifier applied on the whole data set of relevant ads. Among the most predictive features, we find the term "clandestino/a" (illegal immigrant); this term has been central in the anti-immigration narrative in Italy [9], since "where immigrant groups are seen as predominantly illegal, then multi-culturalism poses perceived risks" [44]. On the other side, words related to humanitarianism are among the most predictive of pro-migration sentiment, such as "sociale" (social), and "diritti" (rights).…”

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Clandestino or Rifugiato?Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy✱

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Morales

Mejova

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Monitoring advertising around controversial issues is an important step in ensuring accountability and transparency of political processes. To that end, we use the Facebook Ads Library to collect 2312 migration-related advertising campaigns in Italy over one year. Our pro-and anti-immigration classifier (F1=0.85) reveals a partisan divide among the major Italian political parties, with antiimmigration ads accounting for nearly 15M impressions. Although composing 47.6% of all migration-related ads, anti-immigration ones receive 65.2% of impressions. We estimate that about two thirds of all captured campaigns use some kind of demographic targeting by location, gender, or age. We find sharp divides by age and gender: for instance, anti-immigration ads from major parties are 17% more likely to be seen by a male user than a female. Unlike pro-migration parties, we find that anti-immigration ones reach a similar demographic to their own voters. However their audience change with topic: an ad from anti-immigration parties is 24% more likely to be seen by a male user when the ad speaks about migration, than if it does not. Furthermore, the viewership of such campaigns tends to follow the volume of mainstream news around immigration, supporting the theory that political advertisers try to "ride the wave" of current news. We conclude with policy implications for political communication: since the Facebook Ads Library does not allow to distinguish between advertisers intentions and algorithmic targeting, we argue that more details should be shared by platforms regarding the targeting configuration of socio-political campaigns. * In Italian, "clandestino" means "clandestine" and "rifugiato" means "refugee".† After the first author, the author names are in alphabetical order.

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Clandestino or Rifugiato?Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy✱

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Morales

Mejova

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Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Two were translated into English by the same translation consultant who translated the survey and interview script. Consistent with Braun et al (2019), the first author explored codes and themes using maxda software (2020 version) as this tool is capable of producing tables and figures suitable for a mixed method and assists in presentating integrated data visually (Carlotti and Gianfreda, 2020). Similar themes were identified to bring the results together, which provided reliability to the analysis (Braun et al, 2019).…”

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The Relevance of Duration in Stakeholder Collaboration to Prevent Illegal Gold Mining in Nigeria

2022

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of illegal gold miners and gold mining stakeholders in Zamfara, Nigeria, on the efficacy of a stakeholder collaboration in reducing illegal gold mining (IGM) activities. The study was conducted between 8 September 2020 and 16 March 2021, using a multilevel convergent mixed methods research design. Illegal gold miners identified in seven communities within Anka, Bukkuyum and Mara were invited to participate in a paper and pen survey, resulting in 605 returned questionnaires. Equally, eight stakeholders were sampled for interview. A joint display comparison of the results from the illegal gold miners and the stakeholders indicated mixed reactions in their perceptions. Both the illegal gold miners and stakeholders perceived that the short collaboration between the media and other stakeholders affected the prevention of IGM behaviour. However, compared to the miners, the stakeholders were more satisfied with the short media collaboration.

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“…In that year, the government was led by the Five Star Movement (FSM) and the Lega Nord (LN). As is known (e.g., Ivaldi et al 2017;Carlotti and Stella 2020), both parties frame their political discourse in populist rhetoric, but differ in their foci on societal issues. LN shows a defined alt-right populist party profile: its main political goals are the defense of national sovereignty against the European Union (EU) and the disparities caused by immigration and multiculturalism.…”

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Modern Forms of Populism and Social Policies: Personal Values, Populist Attitudes, and Ingroup Definitions in Support of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Welfare Policies in Italy

Miglietta

Loera

2021

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We analyzed the relationship between modern forms of populism and citizen support for exclusive welfare policies and proposals, and we focused on support for left-wing- and right-wing-oriented welfare policies enacted or proposed during the Lega Nord (LN)–Five Star Movement (FSM) government in Italy (2018–2019). In light of the theoretical perspective of political ideology as motivated by social cognition, we examined citizens’ support for the two policies considering adherence to populist attitudes, agreement on the criteria useful to define ingroup membership, and personal values. We also took into account the role of cognitive sophistication in populism avoidance. A total of 785 Italian adults (F = 56.6; mean age = 35.8) completed an online survey in the summer of 2019 based on the following: support for populist policies and proposals, political ideologies and positioning, personal values, and ingroup boundaries. We used correlation and regression analyses. The results highlight the relationships between populism and political conservatism. Populism was related to the vertical and horizontal borders defining the “people”; cognitive sophistication was not a relevant driver. We identified some facilitating factors that could promote adherence to and support for public policies inspired by the values of the right or of the left, without a true ideological connotation.

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Do Populists Talk the Same? A Multilevel Analysis of the Northern League and Five Star Movements’ Positions on Immigration and the European Union

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Clandestino or Rifugiato?Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy✱

Clandestino or Rifugiato?Anti-immigration Facebook Ad Targeting in Italy✱

The Relevance of Duration in Stakeholder Collaboration to Prevent Illegal Gold Mining in Nigeria

Modern Forms of Populism and Social Policies: Personal Values, Populist Attitudes, and Ingroup Definitions in Support of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Welfare Policies in Italy

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