Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions

Schulz, Anne; Müller, Philipp; Schemer, Christian; Wirz, Dominique S.; Wettstein, Martin; Wirth, Werner

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edw037

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“…Recent studies have built on these findings and investigated how to validly measure these attitudes (across cases) and how these attitudes affect vote choice (Schulz et al. ; Spruyt et al. ; Van Hauwaert & Van Kessel ).…”

Section: Populism Research So Farmentioning

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State of the field: How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus

Rooduijn

2018

European J Political Res

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As a result of the steady rise of populist parties and politicians all over the world – and particularly since the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump – populism research has become increasingly popular and widespread. The field, however, also faces some tricky challenges. First, it is easy to confuse populism with related concepts like, for instance, ‘nativism’ and ‘Euroscepticism’. This brings the risk of sloppy conceptualisation, and, as a result, invalid inferences. Second, populism research remains relatively detached from adjacent fields, and fruitful fertilisation across literatures is still rather uncommon. In order to deal with these challenges, populism research should become both more and less focused. How can these two seemingly conflicting recommendations be reconciled? When it comes to conceptualisation/categorisation strategies and drawing conclusions from studies by other researchers, populism scholars should employ a narrow framework and be precise, distinctive and consistent. Yet when it comes to exploring the literature in search of new hypotheses, scholars should employ a more open mind‐set. After all, theories developed in adjacent fields can inspire populism scholars to formulate innovative new questions and expectations.

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Section: Populism Research So Farmentioning

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State of the field: How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus

Rooduijn

2018

European J Political Res

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“…Coming Populist attitudes. Populist attitudes were measured using a 12-item scale that was introduced by Schulz et al (2017). In sets of four items, the scale depicts three facets of populist attitudes: anti-establishment, popular sovereignty, and the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people.…”

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We Are the People and You Are Fake News: A Social Identity Approach to Populist Citizens’ False Consensus and Hostile Media Perceptions

Schulz

Wirth

Müller

2018

Communication Research

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This study aims to investigate the relationships between citizens' populist attitudes, perceptions of public opinion, and perceptions of mainstream news media. Relying on social identity theory as an explanatory framework, this article argues that populist citizens assume that public opinion is congruent with their own opinion and that mainstream media reporting is hostile toward their own views. To date, only anecdotal evidence suggests that both assumptions are true. The relationships are investigated in a cross-sectional survey with samples drawn from four Western European countries (N = 3,354). Multigroup regression analysis supports our hypotheses: False consensus and hostile media perceptions can clearly be linked to populist attitudes in all four regions under investigation. Moreover, our findings show a gap between hostile media perceptions and congruent public opinion perceptions, which increases with increasing populist attitudes to the point that the persuasive press inference mechanism is annulled. ; Müller, Philipp (2018). We are the people and you are fake news: a social identity approach to populist citizens' false consensus and hostile media perceptions. Communication Research:1-26. AbstractThis study aims to investigate the relationships between citizens' populist attitudes, perceptions of public opinion and perceptions of mainstream news media. Relying on social identity theory as an explanatory framework, this paper argues that populist citizens assume that public opinion is congruent with their own opinion and that mainstream media reporting is hostile toward their own views. To date, only anecdotal evidence suggests that both assumptions are true. The relationships are investigated in a cross-sectional survey with samples drawn from four Western European countries (N = 3,354). Multi-group regression analysis supports our hypotheses: False consensus and hostile media perceptions can clearly be linked to populist attitudes in all four regions under investigation. Moreover, our findings show a gap between hostile media perceptions and congruent public opinion perceptions, which increases with increasing populist attitudes to the point that the persuasive press inference mechanism is annulled.

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“…This study adopts Schulz et al. 's () three‐dimensional measurement of populist attitudes as an operational model. This provides a useful framework for assessing the possible heterogeneity of Chinese populism.…”

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Diversifying Conspiracy Beliefs and Populist Ideologies in the Chinese Context

Guan

Yang

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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While previous research suggests that conspiratorial reasoning and populist ideology often walk hand‐in‐hand, this study explores their correlations by considering their internal heterogeneity in the sociopolitical context of China. Through an online survey (N = 807), the present investigation identifies two subtypes of populism (right‐ vs. responsibility‐oriented), alongside two subtypes of conspiracy beliefs (pro‐system vs. anti‐system), and examines the associations between them. The results demonstrate that while China's right‐oriented populism is positively correlated with anti‐system conspiratorial beliefs, it has no significant correlations with pro‐system conspiracy thinking. Responsibility‐driven populism, however, is positively correlated with pro‐system conspiratorial mindsets, and negatively correlated with anti‐system conspiratorial beliefs. This study moves away from viewing populism and conspiracy belief as homogeneous concepts, providing an often‐neglected Chinese context for these political–psychological ideations.

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Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions

Cited by 283 publications

References 18 publications

State of the field: How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus

State of the field: How to study populism and adjacent topics? A plea for both more and less focus

We Are the People and You Are Fake News: A Social Identity Approach to Populist Citizens’ False Consensus and Hostile Media Perceptions

Diversifying Conspiracy Beliefs and Populist Ideologies in the Chinese Context

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