This paper analyses the right-wing populist rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) in Turkey, focusing on crisis capitalism, emerging discontent rural populations, and opportunities for obstacles to a successful left-wing mobilisation. We put forward three arguments. First, through an examination historical evolution, class-based social-demographic foundations ruling al...

~ "Trade and Class: Labour Strategies in a World of Strong Capital," I set out a strategic model which yielded as logical inferences a program including "nationalization, tax penalties for inadequate investment, the growth of a state sector and full employment, boycott campaigns and protective trade legislation in addition to a concerted campaign against concessions."! Further, the argument not...

One of the main ways in which populism damages democracy is through corrosion political-party systems, a phenomenon that has been especially pronounced contemporary Latin America. Populism’s core, namely charismatic leadership, to blame: Overbearing personalistic leaders avoid hemming their own autonomy and predominance by keeping electoral movements organizationally fluid weak. And because opp...

Studies of the discursive aspect populism have tended to focus on rhetorical manifestations populist discourses, namely how politicians ‘talk politics’. However, scant attention has been devoted rhetorically characterise concept itself. This article investigates a corpus (N = 4.835) parliamentary debates in Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom, assess different definitions used by explain a...

Medical populism, as a political style of handling the challenges public health crisis, has primarily been analyzed in terms its influence on efficacy governmental efforts to meet current pandemic (such those related testing, vaccination, and community restrictions). As these have moral consequences (they, for instance, will affect people’s wellbeing may lead suffering, loss opportunities, unfa...

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 first quarter of the twenty-first century has witnessed rise populism around world. While it is widespread manifests in its own unique ways each society, nation, and region. Religious populism, once rarely discussed, come to take a more prominent role politics diverse range societies countries, as religious discourse increasingly used by mainstream peripheral populist actors alike. This pap...