Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis

Fouquet, Stephan; Brummer, Klaus

doi:10.1057/s41268-022-00270-2

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“…For example, populist use of social media platforms, and the reception of populist political communication online has recently attracted considerable interest (Finlayson, 2022;Lacatus, 2021;Sorensen, 2018). Crucially, scholarship on populist styles and discourses has highlighted the performativity of such political communication, for instance with regard to strategic transgression, and a focus on concepts such as deception, authenticity, charisma, demagoguery and distinctly populist 'leadership' (Aiolfi, 2022;Fouquet & Brummer, 2023;Lacatus & Meibauer, 2022;Meibauer, 2021;Moffitt, 2016;Moraes, 2022).…”

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Introduction: Populism, Political Communication and Performative Leadership in International Politics

Lacatus,

Meibauer,

Löfflmann

2023

The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication

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Who speaks for 'the people'? Populists across the globe have mobilised this question to attack liberal institutions, political opponents, and the democratic process itself, communicating a political reality in which globalist elites have allegedly betrayed the sovereign will of the popular community. The recent 'surge' (Mudde, 2016) or 'wave' (Aslanidis, 2016) of populism around the world has encompassed electorally successful rightwing populist leaders in the Northern Hemisphere such as Donald Trump,

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Section: Shared Concepts and Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Populism, Political Communication and Performative Leadership in International Politics

Lacatus,

Meibauer,

Löfflmann

2023

The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication

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Populist Leadership, Economic Shocks, and Foreign Policy Change

Fouquet

Brummer

2023

Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies

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Populism and the liberal international order: An analysis of UN voting patterns

Destradi,

Vüllers

2024

Rev Int Organ

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Populism is often assumed to undermine the liberal world order, but this claim has never been tested systematically. In this study, we do so for the first time. Based on an understanding of populism as a “thin-centered ideology” entailing anti-elitism and people-centrism, we expect populist governments to have foreign policy preferences opposed to the core features of the US-led liberal international order. Our empirical analysis assesses government preferences on the liberal international order as expressed through UN General Assembly votes. Our findings support the expectation that populism has a strong and statistically significant negative impact on foreign policy preferences related to the core norms of the liberal international order. Moreover, we find that populists with a left-wing ideology and those in less democratic countries tend to be more opposed to the US-led liberal international order. However, populist governments do not reject the UNGA as such, as they are not more likely to be absent from UNGA votes than other states. Thereby, this study makes a contribution both to the burgeoning literature on the international implications of populism and to debates on the crisis of the liberal order.

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Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis

Cited by 9 publications

References 65 publications

Introduction: Populism, Political Communication and Performative Leadership in International Politics

Introduction: Populism, Political Communication and Performative Leadership in International Politics

Populist Leadership, Economic Shocks, and Foreign Policy Change

Populism and the liberal international order: An analysis of UN voting patterns

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