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Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: a UK case study

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:58 authored by Tim Bale, Stijn van Kessel, Paul TaggartPaul Taggart
This article examines the use of the term 'populism' in the UK print media and compares this with the scholarly usage. It assesses whether there is truth in the claim that the media uses the term too freely and imprecisely. Our finding indicate that populism is used for a wide range of seemingly unrelated actors across the world, that it is hard to find any logic in the set of policies that are associated with the term, and that populism is, more or less explicitly, regularly used in a pejorative way. Despite these findings, we refrain from labelling populism a useless term. We will, however, indicate that the inconsistent vernacular use of the term complicates a meaningful academic debate about the concept.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Acta Politica

ISSN

0001-6810

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Issue

2

Volume

46

Page range

111-131

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  • Politics Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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