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%T The Noisy Counter-Revolution: Understanding the Cultural Conditions and Dynamics of Populist Politics in Europe in the Digital Age %A Rensmann, Lars %J Politics and Governance %N 4 %P 123-135 %V 5 %D 2017 %K anti-cosmopolitanism; cultural turn; noisy counter-revolution; politics of transgression; post-factual politics %@ 2183-2463 %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62436-8 %X The article argues for a cultural turn in the study of populist politics in Europe. Integrating insights from three fields - political sociology, political psychology, and media studies - a new, multi-disciplinary framework is proposed to theorize particular cultural conditions favorable to the electoral success of populist parties. Through this lens, the fourth wave of populism should be viewed as a "noisy", anti-cosmopolitan counter-revolution in defense of traditional cultural identity. Reflective of a deep-seated, value-based great divide in European democracies that largely trumps economic cleavages, populist parties first and foremost politically mobilize long lingering cultural discontent and successfully express a backlash against cultural change. While the populist counter-revolution is engendered by profoundly transformed communicative conditions in the age of social media, its emotional force can best be theorized with the political psychology of authoritarianism: as a new type of authoritarian cultural revolt. %C PRT %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info