Who is populist in Central and Eastern Europe? Comparative analysis of prime ministers' populist disclosure

Kocijan, Bojana

doi:10.14267/cjssp.2015.01.04

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“…The emerging academic research on populism has contributed to a general consensus that populism should be best understood as a set of ideas which are being articulated through the discourse of political actors (DeeganKrause & Haughton, 2009;Kocijan, 2015;Hawkins & Kaltwasser, 2017). Therefore, it is now widely accepted among scholars that intersections.…”

Section: Populism As Discoursementioning

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“…Under the ideational definition, populism as discourse should demonstrate three core features: a) Manichean and often moral understanding of politics; b) the proclamation of 'the people' as a homogenous and virtuous community; and c) the depiction of 'the elite' or 'the establishment' as a corrupt and selfserving entity (Hawkins et al, 2018). The approach to populism as a specific type of discourse has already yielded advanced research in the field, mainly in crossregional studies through textual analysis, survey research and experiments (Kocijan, 2015;Grbeša & Šalaj, 2018;Jenne et al, 2021). One of Hawkins' (2009;2010) most significant contributions has been the development of a complex coding rubric for the measurement of various levels of populism through a textual analysis, which he has applied to Latin American cases, mainly by analysing party manifestos and speeches.…”

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“…Our main contribution to the ongoing research on populism thus lies mainly in providing empirical data about populist discourse at the party leadership level, where most of the decisionmaking power gets concentrated after a party wins the elections and forms a government. Finally, we have also attempted to verify whether actors described as populist by scholars do actually demonstrate populist elements in their discourse, and thus contribute to the larger debate on why or under which circumstances someone should be labelled as populist (Kocijan, 2015).…”

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Capturing populist elements in mediated discourse

Pažma,

Hardoš

2023

Intersections

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The article measures the degree of populist elements present in party leaders’ discourses delivered as a part of their appearances in TV debates during the run up to the 2020 Slovak parliamentary elections. With the use of the ‘holistic grading’ approach, we empirically capture the presence and prominence of populist elements in textual transcripts of speeches delivered by 4 opposition party leaders. We start by defining populism as a discourse which can express a set of unique ideas and then follow up with arguments for the use of party leaders’ communication as the object of analysis. We then proceed to operationalize the exact coding process of the ‘holistic grading’ method which is used in our analysis. The measurement results quantitatively represent the degree of populist elements in the communication delivered during the electoral campaign. We note that the ‘holistic grading’ method was successfully able to capture populist elements in the performances of actors who have been previously labelled populist. We find consistent use of populist discourse in the performances of Boris Kollár, Igor Matovič, and Marián Kotleba, with the latter two producing several extremely populist performances. We then discuss our results and further implications derived from the collected data.

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Capturing populist elements in mediated discourse

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2023

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“…Orban's first term (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002) was not populist, while his return to office (2010-14 and 2014-18) shows higher means. Erdogan's and Orban's increases could be explained by the emergence of contextual facilitators of populism during their terms in office, which would lead the two to adopt this kind of discourse (Kocijan 2015).…”

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Populism in Japan

Fahey

Hino

Pekkanen

2021

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics

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While populism has become a major force in many nations in recent decades, the extent to which the phenomenon is found in Japan’s politics is a contested topic on which scholars have asserted positions ranging from claims that it simply does not exist in Japan, to opposing claims that Japan’s most powerful and influential recent prime ministers have in fact been populists, with various positions in between those extremes also being represented. Some of this contestation arises from different definitions of “populism” that were developed in parallel in Japanese and Western literature, both of which also further differ from the vernacular usage of the term in Japanese political and media discourses. Consequently, scholars following different definitions have drawn quite different conclusions regarding the populist nature of Japanese political actors. This chapter outlines the correspondences and contrasts between the different definitions and uses them to examine claims that prominent contemporary political figures, including former prime ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzō Abe, as well as regional governors Toru Hashimoto, Yuriko Koike, and Takashi Kawamura, have been populists or have utilized populist rhetoric in their campaigns. We find that while overt populism in Japan—at least according to the definitions used internationally—is generally confined to regional politics, national leaders have also displayed proclivity to borrow limited aspects of populist rhetoric and strategy in support of their political campaigns and policy objectives.

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‘The First in the Service of Truth’: Construction of Counterknowledge Claims and the Case of Janša's SDS’ Media Outlets

Mahmutović,

Lovec

2024

Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

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The chapter investigates the interplay of populism, on the one hand, and truth and knowledge production, on the other, in the context of the post-truth condition. We emphasize that such an inquiry must begin by clearly delineating the meaning of populism as such and by applying that understanding to the populist relation to truth and knowledge production, without essentializing or simplifying the relation between the two. To illustrate this, we assess the case of Janez Janša and Slovenian Democratic Party to show how they employ the strategy of ‘counterknowledge’ to assert their belief in truth supported by alternative inquiry. Our findings suggest that Janša and SDS do not necessarily oppose science or expert knowledge, nor do they solely privilege folk knowledge. Rather, they advocate a particular kind of counter-expertise arising from their own epistemic community in which SDS works to portray itself as the only reliable authority on truth. This way, SDS’s truth-claims are part of their hegemonic struggle used to solidify political antagonisms through a hybrid strategy of political cognitive relativism. Analysis thus shows that populists are not necessarily irrational actors who negate scientific epistemology, but rather issue truth-claims as a way of consolidating their political agenda.

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Who is populist in Central and Eastern Europe? Comparative analysis of prime ministers' populist disclosure

Cited by 5 publications

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Capturing populist elements in mediated discourse

Capturing populist elements in mediated discourse

Populism in Japan

‘The First in the Service of Truth’: Construction of Counterknowledge Claims and the Case of Janša's SDS’ Media Outlets

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