The anti-authoritarian revolt: Right-wing populism as self-empowerment?

Judicial Empowerment in Authoritarian Regimes

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...

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...

The rise of anti-EU populism

rise in most European countries – North and South, East and West – and that they resort to anti-EU rhetoric to increase their political and electoral support. The combination of the global financial and economic crises (since 2008) with the specifically European sovereign debt crisis (since 2010) has only strengthened this trend. It is equally undeniable that mainstream parties now embrace some...

Consumer empowerment versus consumer populism in healthcare IT

Institutions, providers, and informaticians now encourage healthcare consumers to take greater control of their own healthcare needs through improved health and wellness activities, internet-based education and support groups, and personal health records. The author believes that "untethering" all of these activities from provider-based record systems has introduced a form of unhealthy consumer...