Jul 2026· Canadian Political Science Review· Vol 19, pp. 90-110· 0 citations
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Populist rhetoric is understood as political language that is used to differentiate between the elites and the people, where this rhetoric calls for political power to be given back to the people. A key feature of modern Canadian populism has been its strong regional dimension, but what contemporary issues are of salience to which provincial parties has not been systematically studied in terms of populist rhetoric. Building on Pippa Norris’ international study, we unpack populist rhetoric in regions by surveying Canadian party politics experts on their perception of provincial parties’ use of this type of rhetoric. These experts perceive that half of the provincial parties use populist rhetoric in their messaging. We also break down perceptions of provincial political parties’ rhetoric on five salient policy dimensions: social and economic policies, racialized minority rights, immigration, women’s rights, and environmental protection. Our findings demonstrate how populist rhetoric in Canada has a distinctly regional variation and has been driven by the center-right and the right.
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Rossella Merullo, Ana Catalano Weeks· Politics and Governance· 0 citations
Populism has become a central theme in contemporary politics and media, raising debates about its disruptive potential or normalization within mainstream discourse. This study explores how early-career Czech journalists, who entered the profession after 2011 when Andrej Babiš and Tomio Okamura emerged as major populist...
Jan Křovák· Central European Journal of...· 0 citations
This article examines the rise of right-wing populism in Latin America, challenging the common assumption that it is largely a regional variant of the European Populist Radical Right (PRR). Although figures like Jair Bolsonaro, José Antonio Kast, Javier Milei, and Nayib Bukele exhibit populist tendencies and culture-wa...
As European democracies struggle with a ‘crisis of representation’, populist parties appear to be instrumental in channeling popular discontent with governments across the continent, including through protests. While contemporary theories propose a strong connection between populism and protest mobilization, this has...
Leonhard Schmidt, Bruno Castanho Silva· European Journal of Politica...· 0 citations
The relationship between gender and populism provides a significant lens through which to examine contemporary transformations of political representation, political subjectivity, and democratic conflict. This article examines how gender is constructed within Italian right-wing populist discourse and how feminist mobil...
