Populist attitudes towards politics and science: how do they differ?

Eberl, Jakob-Moritz; Huber, Robert; Mede, Niels G.; Greussing, Esther

doi:10.1080/2474736x.2022.2159847

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“…Still, we readily concede that measures of populist attitudes beyond those available in our data might prove a better fit for the Canadian case (for example, Schulz et al, 2018; Van Hauwaert et al, 2020). We also agree with Eberl and colleagues (2023) that populism is a multifaceted phenomenon whose remit extends beyond electoral politics, and so researchers should ensure congruence between their conceptualization of populism and the referent object to the greatest extent possible.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Still, it is important to note that recent research has highlighted theoretical and empirical distinctions between political populism and science populism (Eberl et al, 2023). While similarities exist between both types of populism, they obviously differ in terms of whether the referent object is political elites or political power (on the one hand) or scientists or scientific knowledge (on the other).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Pandemic Populism: Explaining Support for the People's Party of Canada in the 2021 Federal Election

Medeiros

Gravelle

2023

Can J Pol Sci

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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen opponents of public health mandates deploy a range of populist and anti-elite arguments. The 2021 Canadian federal election was an exceptional “pandemic election” in which the COVID-19 health crisis took centre stage. But the election campaign also saw the populist People's Party of Canada (PPC) rise to prominence by opposing pandemic-related public health restrictions. While the party failed to win a seat, it did manage to triple its vote share (1.6 per cent to 4.9 per cent). It is unclear, however, what factors led to the rise in support for the PPC. To explore this issue, we draw on an original post-election survey (n = 18,950) and focus on populist attitudes and opposition to COVID-19-related public health restrictions. Results from regression models and structural equation models (SEMs) indicate that opposition to public health restrictions was a much stronger factor than populism in shaping support for the PPC.

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confidence: 99%

Pandemic Populism: Explaining Support for the People's Party of Canada in the 2021 Federal Election

Medeiros

Gravelle

2023

Can J Pol Sci

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“…And the Manichean outlook inherent to populism, pitting "the good people" against "the evil elite, " may extend to the realm of science, framing a conflict between allegedly virtuous ordinary people and an allegedly unvirtuous academic elite (Mede and Schäfer, 2020). Collectively, this framework has been referred to as "science-related populism" (Mede and Schäfer, 2020), which empirically partly overlaps with political populism (Eberl et al, 2023).…”

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Ideological predictors of anti-science attitudes: exploring the impact of group-based dominance and populism in North America and Western Europe

Remsö,

Renström

2023

Front. Soc. Psychol.

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This research examined individual-level ideological variables as predictors of anti-science attitudes, encompassing a lack of acceptance, belief, and trust in science as an institution and source of knowledge. We specifically focused on ideologies associated with group-based dominance and populism while also considering conventional predictors like scientific literacy, symbolic ideology, and partisanship. Study 1 was an original survey (U.S. participants, N = 700), which replicated prior research showing that political conservative identity and attitudes favoring group-based dominance most strongly predicted anti-science attitudes. In contrast, populist attitudes had no substantial effect. In Study 2, analyzing data from the Dutch LISS Panel (N = 2,186), group-based dominance attitudes, specifically with regard to gender, as well as populist attitudes and conspiracy beliefs, emerged as the most prominent factors predicting anti-science attitudes. These studies speak to the role of group-based dominance attitudes in undermining the perceived validity of science, as observed in both North American and Western European samples. Whether these results reflect more consistent patterns or are specific to particular countries and cultural contexts is not clear, emphasizing the need for future research on how these ideologies shape and perpetuate anti-science attitudes.

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“…Furthermore, our survey does not include question on the so-called science populism (Mede and Schäfer, 2020). Nonetheless, as Eberl et al (2023) have shown, political populism and science populism, while conceptually different, empirically they overlap. Nonetheless, we believe that additional elements could have been an interesting relation to be explored.…”

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confidence: 86%

Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

Vittori

Pilet

Paulis

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The literature on technocracy has shown that expertise is a crucial factor in driving support for technocrats. However, the literature has not investigated yet what happens when technocrats are opposed to partisan experts. In this article, we want to fill this gap by analysing the support for two potential ministers of health with relevant expertise for their portfolio but with a different relationship to partisan politics. For this purpose, we run a novel survey in 14 European countries with more than 20,000 respondents. Our main results show that non-partisan experts are preferred over partisan experts across Europe, both when citizens have a high sympathy and a low sympathy for the party appointing the minister. However, in the latter case, the effect is more evident.

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Populist attitudes towards politics and science: how do they differ?

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Pandemic Populism: Explaining Support for the People's Party of Canada in the 2021 Federal Election

Pandemic Populism: Explaining Support for the People's Party of Canada in the 2021 Federal Election

Ideological predictors of anti-science attitudes: exploring the impact of group-based dominance and populism in North America and Western Europe

Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

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