Spectre and Red Herring: Labelling Populism in a Country Without a Left- wing (the Case of the Czech Republic)
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004721326_005" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004721326_005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spectre and Red Herring: Labelling Populism in a Country Without a Left- wing (the Case of the Czech Republic)
Original language description
With regards to comparable countries in the region (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia), the Czech Republic is in a specific position - the president and governing coalition parties are openly liberal and pro- European, whilst the media (not just public broadcasting services) are relatively strong and independent. Nevertheless, since 2010 the Czech Republic has also seen the rise of populist parties, which has led to the gradual expunction of the left from the parliamentary map with populist parties becoming the only visible opposition. Given this situation, it is therefore necessary and interesting to observe and analyse what traditional politicians and the mainstream media label as populism. who is labelled as a populist, and, most importantly, what is labelled as populist. This chapter presents the finding that in a country without a political left, the ruling right does not make much use of the term populism to label extreme right stances of exclusivity and discrimination against minorities. On the contrary, it makes intensive use of this label to discredit social reforms, proposals for a fairer (more socially sensitive) economic redistribution, or to directly advocate the dismantling of the welfare state and the privatisation of public goods.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Media, Populism and Hate Speech
ISBN
978-90-04-72130-2
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
60-75
Number of pages of the book
328
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
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