Populism in the United States

Green, Matthew; White, John Kenneth

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“…The analysis of populism as a communication style (Moffitt, 2016) offers important insights into entrepreneurial populism. The rise of populist celebrities through heavy uses of social media calls indeed for a more systematic discussion of the populism-communication nexus (Green and White, 2019;Street, 2004).…”

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‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign

Vesalon

Botgros

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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‘The world’s shortest highway’ is 1 metre long and was built in 2019 by a Romanian businessman as part of the campaign ‘Romania wants highways’. This brought interesting evolutions to the landscape of social movements in Eastern Europe. It was a highly personalised campaign, one which faced several internal contradictions and displayed an uncritical adoption of stereotypes about progress and development. We argue that it produced a discourse that revolves around ‘Westernisation’ and ‘nationhood’. As this article seeks to demonstrate, the campaign is framed in a discourse of ‘entrepreneurial populism’. By analysing this discourse, we contribute with a peculiar case to the debates on the varieties of populism and on the culture of business celebrities. Our analysis indicates that, although this single-issue campaign is nominally about highways, its substance is rather about business celebrities occupying the space of social activism.

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‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign

Vesalon

Botgros

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Among some wealthy nations, a sense that numerous concessions made to less developed countries (LDCs) have resulted in the latter gaining unfairly at the expense of their own working class, has gained ground (Gardels & Berggruen, 2019a). In countries such as France, the US, Britain, and Italy, for instance, anti-globalization sentiments are gaining ground (Gardels & Berggruen, 2019b;Green & White, 2019).…”

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Addressing Climate Change in the Context of Nationalism: A Multilevel Action Framework

Arogyaswamy¹

2021

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Despite the warnings of, and concern over, the inevitability of climate change, there has been a lack of concerted, enforceable action. Some of the predicted phenomena are already unfolding, but the international reaction remains piecemeal. In this review paper, based on grounded theory methodology, the main factors delaying or stymying an appropriate response are conceptualized: skepticism of science; its politicization and perceived conflict with neoliberalism; well-funded opposition by the fossil fuel interests; disregarding long term damage to pursue immediate gains; dimensions of culture such as individualism and attitudes to nature. This paper also posits that these factors have been exacerbated by nationalism and populism, widening the rifts among and within countries. A multilevel approach to countering these challenges is proposed. National governments need to enact appropriate policies. However, institutions (corporations and activist NGOs), transnational climate change governance, public-private enterprises, and committed individuals are crucial to have an impact on mitigation and adaptation. While the handling of the coronavirus exemplifies the fragmentation and skepticism demonstrated in dealing with climate change, it could serve as a foretaste of the disastrous outcomes of climate inaction.

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“…In this paper, we focus on a specific context that has recently gained considerable momentum on political agendas and attracted attention from populist parties around the world, in particular the United States: climate change. Recent success of Republican and Democratic populist candidates (Green & White, 2019;Oliver & Rahn, 2016) suggest that populism could affect citizen support for climate mitigation policies, particularly since climate change is a contested issue in the US. Specifically, we seek to add to the literature by investigating the effects of citizens' populist beliefs and experimentally induced populist rhetoric on their attitudes towards climate mitigation policies.…”

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Political populism, responsiveness, and public support for climate mitigation

2020

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Populism and its rhetoric are on the rise. Political actors across different ideological camps and parties are employing dispositional blame attribution, emphasizing the non-responsiveness of 'corrupt elites' to the needs of 'good and honest' people. In this paper, we focus on one specific and common area of blame attribution; climate change. In particular, in the United States, a central player in global climate governance, climate change is a very contested issue. The successes of populist candidates in both major US parties suggest that populism could affect citizen support for climate mitigation policies. The often abstract, elite-driven, and technical nature of climate change makes this issue an ideal target for populist critique. Our paper offers an empirical assessment of this claim. First, we test whether populism truly has an independent effect on people's climate attitudes. Second, we assess to what extent frames about elite responsiveness are important heuristics for individuals in their formation of preferences concerning climate policies. To accomplish this goal, we fielded representative US surveys (N = 3000) and collected both observational and experimental data. Results suggest that populist attitudes enhance the effects of partisanship, rather than creating an independent, orthogonal dimension. Populist Democrats support climate policies more than non-populist Democrats do, whereas populist Republicans oppose such policies more than non-populist Republicans do. Additionally, while our experimental results indicate that populist treatments blaming elites for being nonresponsive to citizens' preferences do not affect policy support, we also find that reassuring individuals that political elites care about citizens' needs and preferences in relation to climate policy increases support for the latter. Key policy insights. Citizens' support is central for implementing ambitious climate policies.. Populist attitudes amplify partisanship effects on public opinion about climate policy.. Populist discourse per se is not an obstacle to adopting ambitious climate policy in the US.. Political entrepreneurs can foster support for climate policies by emphasizing elite responsiveness to citizens' needs and preferences.. Populist attacks on established elites are unlikely to derail support for climate policy.

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Populism in the United States

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign

‘The world’s shortest highway’: Entrepreneurial populism and the making of a personal campaign

Addressing Climate Change in the Context of Nationalism: A Multilevel Action Framework

Political populism, responsiveness, and public support for climate mitigation

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