Political Psychology Perspectives on Populism

This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the authors outline the various psycho-social precursors of populisms that have emerged from empirical investigations. Using both mainstream and critical perspectives, the book shows...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sensales, Gilda (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I Transcultural Comparative Analyses
  • 2 Political and Psychological Processes Contributing to European Populisms of the Left and Right
  • 3 The Inner Logic: An Intergroup Approach to the Populist Mentality in Europe
  • Part II Psychosocial Constructs in Action
  • 4 COVID-19 Threat and Populism: The Mediated Effect of Epistemic and Significance Motivations
  • 5 Conspiracy Ideation and Political Populism
  • 6 Populist Thin Ideology: From a Theoretical Conceptualisation to the Development of a New Scale
  • Part III The Italian Case
  • 7 This is not the End. How the Appeal of Populism Changed Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 8 Representations of Populism, Pandemic, and War among Italian Citizens of Different Political Orientations. A Psycho-Linguistic Analysis of their Associative Productions (2019-2022)
  • Part IV Populist Communication in the Blogsphere
  • 9 Italian populist leaders and their followers on Facebook (2019-2022). Representational fields and empirical evidence from a psycho-social linguistic perspective
  • 10 Double Bind or Political Advantage? The Negotiation of Womanhood in the Online Discourse of Female Right-Wing Populist Politicians
  • 11 Concluding remarks