Power Preservation, No Matter the Means : Populism and Conspiracy Theory as Instruments of Political Consolidation in Serbia

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Result on the web
<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/doi/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2458747/205227/Power-Preservation-No-Matter-the-MeansPopulism-and" target="_blank" >https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/doi/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2458747/205227/Power-Preservation-No-Matter-the-MeansPopulism-and</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2458747" target="_blank" >10.1525/cpcs.2025.2458747</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Power Preservation, No Matter the Means : Populism and Conspiracy Theory as Instruments of Political Consolidation in Serbia
Original language description
This article examines the Serbian political leadership—the president and government alike—by addressing the dominant political figures’ narratives. We communicate with the theoretical aspects in the study of populism and conspiracy theories as this nexus enables us to examine the specific nature of the domestic politics in Serbia. In our view, the ruling elite complements its populist discourse with conspiracy theory to ensure its survival in power, by regularly generating fear about the threat posed to Serbian statehood and lack of apprehension for Belgrade’s geopolitical preferences and exploration of foreign policy alternatives. Our analysis fills a major gap in the literature, since there has been only sporadic research on this topic and none of it has focused on the merger of populism and conspiracy theory. The findings we have reached—largely those of the elite’s self-victimization narratives and their dissemination of anti-Western sentiments—provide for a fresh contribution to the debate concerning the power struggle and the state of democracy in Serbia, especially given the fact that the key political stakeholders draw heavily on pro-regime media outlets to readily disseminate their self-serving accounts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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