Celebrity and the displacement of class
Aligning populist worldviews of citizens to media preferences
In this article we look at how people’s relations to the media shape their anti-establishment, people-centrist and exclusionist populist worldviews. We propose to establish the relation between the media and populist attitudes by measuring media consumption with citizen’s attitudes towards a democracy-related function of the media, and we postulate...
The transversal political logic of populism
Approaching populism at the intersection of ideology and discourse, in this article we analyse how politicians in Slovenia responded to migration during and after the ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2019). Based on a frame analysis of parliamentary debates that addressed migration, we explore differences and similarities in the speeches of different politic...
Challenges facing organised interests under a populist right‐wing government in Slovenia
The development of organised interests (OIs) during the socialist period in Central and Eastern Europe was considerably limited, if not frozen. This was also somewhat the case in Slovenia, where it was mainly OIs close to the government that could operate. In the early 1990s, the interest group system in the now independent country was already reco...
Vpliv kolonializma in priseljevalnih politik na vzpon nacionalizma/populizma na Nizozemskem
V Evropi v zadnjem desetletju opažamo naglo rast desnega populizma, ki v svoji retoriki nasprotuje priseljevanju ter multikulturizmu, tovrstna retorika pa pridobiva na podpori. Diplomsko delo obsega pregled zgodovine vzpona desnega populizma na Nizozemskem in analizo povezave med pojavom populizma in kolonializmom ter priseljevalnih politik. Cilj d...
Kako govore hrvatski ministri?
Članek analizira govorico sedanjih članov Vlade Republike Hrvaške. Najpomembnejši namen njihovega javnega govora je prepričati občinstvo, da so načela, ki jih zagovarjajo, usmerjena v splošno korist. Ob tem bi morali uporabljati zborno hrvaščino, ki je obvezna v formalnih situacijah, kjer je treba govoriti skladno s kodificiranimi predpisi. Vendar ...
Vzpon populizma v Evropi: ustavna demokracija na preizkušnji, analiza Nemčije
Volitve v zvezni parlament Zvezne republike Nemčije septembra 2017 so predstavljale mejnik v povojni zgodovini te države. Prvič po drugi svetovni vojni se je namreč neki desni populistični stranki, Alternativi za Nemčijo, uspelo prebiti v zvezni parlament. Obdobja pred letom 2017 so v Nemčiji zaznamovali predvsem volilni neuspehi tovrstnih strank, ...
The ‘Brussels bubble’
The focus of this article is on the rise of populism and Euroscepticism in the context of the crisis of liberal internationalism and of the EU in particular. The article considers the view that the weak integration of Slovenian–EU politics makes the country vulnerable to this trend. Modern-nationalist, postmodern-cosmopolitan and faux-modern-partia...
Populism and the consumer society
This study considers how today’s growing consumer culture affects political trends in representative democracies. In recent years, a significant populist upsurge has been seen around the world. While political approaches are vital, to properly understand populism it is also necessary to take sociological perspectives into account. The questions con...
Dekonsolidacija demokracije v evropskih državah
V magistrski nalogi opredelim in analiziram razloge in potek demokratične dekonsolidacije v evropskih državah. S sodobnim pristopom ustavne retrogresije so avtoritarno-populistične stranke v različnih merah že uspele erodirati institucionalne zaščite na Poljskem, Madžarskem, v Turčiji in Rusiji. Ustavna retrogresija oziroma počasen umik demokratičn...
