The Power of Performance: Celebrity Populism, Fictional Populists, and Implications for Liberal Democracy
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47156-8_2" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-47156-8_2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Power of Performance: Celebrity Populism, Fictional Populists, and Implications for Liberal Democracy
Original language description
Relying on the innovative concept of celebrity populism, the chapter explores the cases of two parody candidates from Croatia and Serbia who assumed imaginary identities to run in elections. Enio Meštrović, aka Ričard, and Luka Maksimović, aka Ljubiša Preletačević-Beli, employed a strong anti-establishment stance, using satire and wit to voice their critique of the national political elites. Their campaign strategies, based on provocative performances and self-scandalization, garnered substantial media attention, which ultimately translated into tangible voter support. The chapter argues that Ričard's and Beli's controversial political success attests to the power of self-scandalization and celebrity-populist mix in contemporary politics. The chapter discusses implications that the rise of celebrity populists and parody candidates, such as Ričard and Beli, may have for liberal democracy. It concludes that the engaging power of celebrity politics, coupled with populist homogenization of the people, may energize voters, and encourage political engagement. On the other hand, celebrity populists, like other populists, call for disruption of norms, which may undermine standards of civility and democracy. Additionally, celebrity populists have a propensity to oversimplify and trivialize substantive political issues, frequently reducing politics to mere theatrical displays, deprived of adequate political competencies and void of any real political substance.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Scandalogy 4: Political Scandals in the Age of Populism, Partisanship, and Polarization
ISBN
978-3-031-47155-1
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
11-28
Number of pages of the book
195
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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