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Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe: Evidence From a 15-Country Comparative Experiment.
- Source :
- International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Autumn2021, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p491-510, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- We investigate the effects of populist messages that (a) stress the centrality of "ordinary" people, (b) shift blame to the "corrupt" elites, or (c) combine people centrality and antielitist cues on 3 dimensions of populist attitudes: anti-elitism, homogeneous people, and popular sovereignty. We conducted an extensive 15-country experiment in which we manipulated populist communication as social identity frames (N = 7,271). Multilevel analyses demonstrate that messages stressing the centrality of the ordinary people activate all dimensions of populist attitudes. In contrast, anti-elite messages activate anti-elitism attitudes only for those individuals with lower levels of education and extreme positions on the ideological left–right spectrum. Our findings suggest that populist political communication plays a key role in activating populist attitudes across Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09542892
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Public Opinion Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153223983
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edaa018