Beyond Populism

Rise of populism

Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’

Through a number of theoretical and empirical contributions, this Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics addresses the recent sudden upsurge of right-wing populist parties (RWPs) in Europe and the USA. It responds to many recent challenges and a variety of ‘discursive shifts’ (Krzyżanowski 2013a, 2018 a,b) and wider dynamics of media and public discourses that have taken place as...

Inefficient lobbying, populism and oligarchy

This paper analyses the efficiency consequences of lobbying in a production economy with imperfect commitment. We first show that the Pareto efficiency result found for truthful equilibria of common agency games in static exchange economies no longer holds under these more general conditions. We construct a model of pressure groups where the set of efficient truthful common-agency equilibria ha...

A Political Theory of Populism

When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be in‡uenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence, even a moderate politician seeking reelection chooses ‘populist’policies— i.e., policies to the left of the median voter— as a way of signaling that he is not from the right. Truly right-wing politicians r...

Populism in guideline writing.