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Populist attitudes and conspiratorial thinking
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In this article, the authors examine the anti-establishment sentiments of pro-incumbent voters for a populist force that is in government and thus controls the political system and examine the question of what happens to these sentiments when such a force is in power.Abstract:
What happens to the anti-establishment sentiments of pro-incumbent voters for a populist force that is in government and thus controls the political system? This article examines this question util...read more
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The Populist Zeitgeist
TL;DR: In this article, a clear and new definition of populism is presented and the normal-pathology thesis is rejected; instead, it is argued that today populist discourse has become mainstream in the politics of western democracies and one can even speak of a populist Zeitgeist.
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Belief in Conspiracy Theories
TL;DR: A survey of 348 residents of southwestern New Jersey showed that most believed that several of a list of 10 conspiracy theories were at least probably true as discussed by the authors, and that people who believed in one conspiracy were more likely to also believe in others.
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What Unites Right-Wing Populists in Western Europe?: Re-Examining Grievance Mobilization Models in Seven Successful Cases
TL;DR: Unlike for the green party family, no empirically backed scholarly consensus exists about the grievances mobilized by populist right parties in Western Europe as discussed by the authors, and three competing grie- frie...
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How Populist Are the People? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters
TL;DR: The sudden and perhaps unexpected appearance of populist parties in the 1990s shows no sign of immediately vanishing as mentioned in this paper, and the lion's share of the research on populism has focused on defining populism.