Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches
| Autor: | Benjamin Moffitt, Annika Werner, Glenn Kefford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Australia 050801 communication & media studies Political communication voting behaviour Mutually exclusive events populism 0506 political science Populism Politics 0508 media and communications Voting Political science 050602 political science & public administration political communication Positive economics political attitudes media_common |
| Zdroj: | Political Studies. 70:1006-1027 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9248 0032-3217 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0032321721997741 |
| Popis: | The study of populist attitudes has thus far drawn heavily on ideational definitions of populism, focussing almost exclusively on attitudes related to dimensions such as people-centredness and anti-elitism. However, these accounts have largely ignored other approaches to populism, especially the discursive-performative school which see populism as something that is communicated and done by political actors. We argue that when studying populist attitudes, these approaches are not mutually exclusive. In this article, we develop a novel measure of attitudes towards populist communication and consider how these interact with populist ideational attitudes. Testing our measures on the Australian case, we demonstrate that attitudes towards populist communication exist independently of populist ideational attitudes, and that they have a significant effect on voting behaviour and on attitudes related to the ideational approach. Therefore, we argue that studies of populist attitudes need to take attitudes towards populist communication into account in future work. |
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