Overview
- Offers an interpretation of psycho-social processes (cognitive, motivational, emotional, representational) of populism
- Pays particular attention to the case of Italy to show populism on the both the Left and the Right
- Focuses on syntonic/dystonic communication between leaders and followers and on the communication of women leaders
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology (PSPP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transcultural Comparative Analyses
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Front Matter
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Populist Communication in the Blogsphere
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- conspiracies and populism
- attitudes towards immigration and populism
- need for closure and populism
- authoritarianism and populism
- social representations of populism
- need for significance and populism
- left and right populisms
- populist leadership
- Manichaeism and populism
- war and populism
- collective narcissism and populism
- social media and populism
- social psychology of populism
- languages of populism
- covid and populism
- democracy and populism
About this book
This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the authors outline the various psychosocial precursors of populisms that have emerged from empirical investigations. Using both mainstream and critical perspectives, the book shows how the field has driven multiple research programmes and methodologies. The authors draw on questionnaires and political communication via social media to analyse the opinions, attitudes, and representations of laypeople and populist leaders. The volume is aimed at researchers, students, and readers with expertise on the subject. It collects contributions from scholars of social psychology, proposing an innovative reading of the social-cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that can fuel populism.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gilda Sensales is Associate Professor in Social and Political Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her main research interests are the representations of populism, political communication between mainstream and new media, gender and sexism in politics, and critical history of social psychology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Psychology Perspectives on Populism
Editors: Gilda Sensales
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44073-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44072-4Published: 13 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44075-5Due: 18 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44073-1Published: 12 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-2592
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2606
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 478
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Communication, Politics and Gender