| Title |
Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: A UK case study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Acta Politica, March 2011
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| DOI | 10.1057/ap.2011.3 |
| Authors |
Tim Bale, Stijn van Kessel, Paul Taggart |
| Abstract |
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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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Guinea | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 4 | 67% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 33% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Greece | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 87 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 15% |
| Researcher | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 13% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 17% |
| Unknown | 15 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 55 | 62% |
| Arts and Humanities | 8 | 9% |
| Psychology | 3 | 3% |
| Linguistics | 2 | 2% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Unknown | 14 | 16% |
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