Illusion of Left-Wing Populism:

The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America

Latin America’s “left turn” was the focus of a cluster of thoughtful articles in the October 2006 issue of this journal. Since then, the trend toward the left and toward populist governments has deepened. In South America, the rise of the left is unmistakable, with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela led by presidents with varying degrees and shapes ...

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...

Predicting the Rise of EU Right-Wing Populism in Response to Unbalanced Immigration

1Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA 2Faculty of Information Studies, SI-8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia 3University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia 4Zagreb School of Economics and Management, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia 5Luxembourg School of Business, 2453 Luxembourg, Luxembourg 6Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan 7CERGE-EI, Praha 1, 11000 Nové...

Rise of populism

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...