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The Noisy Counter-Revolution: Understanding the Cultural Conditions and Dynamics of Populist Politics in Europe in the Digital Age
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Abstract 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 elec... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Europa; Populismus; Politikwissenschaft; Forschungsgegenstand; politische Soziologie; politische Psychologie; Digitale Medien; Soziale Medien; Kulturwandel; Wertwandel; Autoritarismus
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
anti-cosmopolitanism; cultural turn; noisy counter-revolution; politics of transgression; post-factual politics
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 123-135
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 5 (2017) 4
Heftthema
Populism and the Remaking of (Il)Liberal Democracy in Europe
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v5i4.1123
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)