Voices of Supporters - Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections

This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people�, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.

General

Imprint:	John Benjamins Publishing Co
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 101
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Veronika Koller • Natalia Borza • Massimiliano Demata • Laura Filardo-Llamas • Anna W Gustafsson • Susanne Kopf • Marlene Miglbauer • Valeria Reggi • Ljiljana Å arić • Charlotta Seiler Brylla
Pages:	327
ISBN-13:	978-90-272-1388-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	90-272-1388-7
Barcode:	9789027213884

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