Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19

Zanotti, Lisa; Turnbull‐Dugarte, Stuart J.

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“…Italy subscribed to these restrictive policies since the first wave. However, when the initial emergency was somehow contained, populist leaders in the opposition had the chance to politicize different aspects linked to the consequences of the pandemic itself ( see Zanotti and Turnbull-Dugarte, 2022). Our main argument is that populists are successful in taking advantage of a crisis when they can credibly frame it as a failure of representation.…”

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Populists and the Pandemic

Rennó¹,

Ringe²

2022

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Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals.The responses of some populist leaders have received much public attention as they denied the severity of the public health crisis, denigrated experts and data, looked for scapegoats, encouraged protests, questioned the legitimacy of liberal institutions, spread false information, and fueled conspiracies. But how widespread are those particular reactions? How much variation is there? What explains the variation that does exist? This volume considers these questions through critical analysis of countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa by leading experts with deep knowledge of their respective cases. Some chapters focus on populist parties, others on charismatic populist leaders. Some countries examined are democracies, others autocracies. Some populists are left wing, others right wing. Some populists are in government, others in opposition. This variation allows for a panoramic consideration of factors that systematically influence or mediate populist responses to the pandemic. The book thus makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the intersection between two of the most pressing social and political challenges of our time.The book will be of interest to all those researching populism, extremism, and political parties and those more broadly interested in political science, public policy, sociology, communications, and economics.

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Populists and the Pandemic

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Ringe²

2022

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“…When it comes to assessing the populist frame, one can identify that Trump used the pandemic to express his hostility to international institutions, accusing the WHO of being under Chinese control and eventually withdrawing the US from the WHO (Roberts 2022). VOX also took the same line as Trump in portraying the WHO as in hock to the Chinese government (Zanotti and Turnbull-Dugarte 2022). In the EU context, the pandemic also saw PRR actors furthering their Euroscepticism and criticizing the EU for constraining vaccine rollout in the case of VOX (Zanotti and Turnbull-Dugarte 2022), for Brussels's inaction and for deficiencies in vaccine policy in the cases of both Fidesz (Batory 2022) and the AfD (Lehmann and Zehnter 2022).…”

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“…VOX also took the same line as Trump in portraying the WHO as in hock to the Chinese government (Zanotti and Turnbull-Dugarte 2022). In the EU context, the pandemic also saw PRR actors furthering their Euroscepticism and criticizing the EU for constraining vaccine rollout in the case of VOX (Zanotti and Turnbull-Dugarte 2022), for Brussels's inaction and for deficiencies in vaccine policy in the cases of both Fidesz (Batory 2022) and the AfD (Lehmann and Zehnter 2022). Marine Le Pen in France declared that the pandemic was a result of lack of borders embodied in the EU (Froio 2022), while both PRR parties in Italy were mainly focused on EU deficiencies in economic responses with respect to the pandemic rather than on failures in health policies (Pirro 2022).…”

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“…Finally, authoritarianism is another relevant factor that needs to be considered. Those actors in opposition, like VOX in Spain, used authoritarianism as a way of criticizing the government's response to the pandemic (Zanotti and Turnbull-Dugarte 2022), and similarly the AfD criticized the German government for its increasing authoritarianism in its pandemic response. And even Trump seemed to pass responsibility to individual states rather than centralize control as the pandemic developed (Roberts 2022).…”

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The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic

Kaltwasser

Taggart

2022

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COVID-19 shocked the world and provided a particular challenge for populist radical right (PRR) forces. We lay out three research questions that this special issue addresses through case studies of the PRR in government in Brazil, Hungary, Turkey and the US and in opposition in France, Italy, Germany and Spain: (1) How have PRR actors responded to the pandemic? (2) How have PRR actors framed the politics of the pandemic? and (3) What have been the effects of the pandemic on the popularity of the PRR? We explain the case selection of this special issue and summarize the main findings of the eight case studies, which show that the pandemic did not severely damage the PRR and that they had very different responses to the challenge. This reinforces the idea that the PRR is not ephemeral but is rather the by-product of structural transformations of contemporary societies and is here for the foreseeable future.

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“…To analyse the degree of agreement of the interviewees with the "influenzaisation" discourse, it is necessary to recall that this discursive framework is based on two main messages. On the one hand, the reactivation of the economy, which is a discourse that ties in with the demands of the electorate ideologically further to the right, was one of the communicational levers used by President Díaz Ayuso during the toughest stages of the pandemic and during her electoral campaign for the regional elections of 4 May 2021, based on a discourse of "freedom" (Zanotti;Turnbull-Dugarte, 2022). On the other hand, the idea that it is necessary not only to revive the economy but also to revive social life -especially for the young-and thus avoid the effects of restrictions and the exceptional nature of the pandemic on mental health since it would begin to be legitimate to assume certain risks and costs.…”

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Influence of government communication on risk perception. An analysis based on the context of the sixth wave of Covid-19 in Madrid

Martínez

Rodríguez

Martínez

2022

EPI

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Risk theorists have frequently discussed the discursive construction of risk perception. In particular, the effect of media consumption on increasing the subjective perception of risk has been highlighted. Not much is known about how government communication affects citizens’ impressions and attitudes in this area, something that this research seeks to address. During the sixth wave of Covid-19, triggered by the emergence of the Omicron variant, government discourse shifted from initial concern to what has become known as the “influenzaisation” paradigm, an attempt to normalise the disease. Based on the results of a survey carried out in January 2022 amongst 664 citizens of the Community of Madrid, we sought to demonstrate, using binary logistic regression (BLR) models, to what extent the degree to which the citizens of Madrid internalised the government’s thesis of “influenzaisation” was related to a lower perception of risk. Similarly, the aim is to show whether agreement with the “influenzaisation” thesis also favoured positions that were less inclined to restrictions, so that government communication succeeded in reducing the social demand for measures. Finally, the study evaluates the predictive character of ideology on levels of risk perception and attitudes towards restrictive measures. The findings indicate that acceptance of the “influenzaisation” story led to a lower perception of risk and, as a consequence, reduced support for restrictive measures among those most exposed to this thesis. The discursive articulation of risk in government communication becomes a central element of crisis management and the strategic formulation of “risk de-escalation” or “post-risk” messages.

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Surviving But Not Thriving: VOX and Spain in Times of COVID-19

Cited by 12 publications

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Populists and the Pandemic

Populists and the Pandemic

The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic

Influence of government communication on risk perception. An analysis based on the context of the sixth wave of Covid-19 in Madrid

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