From Anti-Politician Technocratism to Anti-Immigrant Nativism? The Changes in Populist Communication of Former Czech PM Andrej Babiš
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F25%3A43971683" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/25:43971683 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/58/3/177/203973/From-Anti-Politician-Technocratism-to-Anti" target="_blank" >https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article-abstract/58/3/177/203973/From-Anti-Politician-Technocratism-to-Anti</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2024.2381954" target="_blank" >10.1525/cpcs.2024.2381954</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From Anti-Politician Technocratism to Anti-Immigrant Nativism? The Changes in Populist Communication of Former Czech PM Andrej Babiš
Original language description
This article focusing on the communications of former Czech PM Andrej Babiš is a contribution to the debate on the transformation of the communications of populist actors. Using a content analysis of all Facebook communication in the profiles of Babiš and his ANO movement in the pre-election periods between 2013 and 2023, the text reveals a gradual transformation of communication. While the level of populism in communication remained relatively high throughout the decade (with a notable peak in the run-up to the 2017 parliamentary elections, after four years of government engagement), other (ideological) features accompanying populism transformed significantly. The initial technocratic, expert, and managerial rhetoric putting in contrast “bad ideological/party politicians” and “good experts and managers” was pragmatically abandoned over time and replaced by a nativist rhetoric placing in contrast “good natives” and “bad incomers,” that is, immigrants (and not immediately after the outbreak of the so-called migration crisis). In this respect, the transformation of the communication of ANO and Babiš differs from the communication of a large part of other dominant Central European populist actors.
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Czech description
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Classification
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
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
Name of the periodical
Communist and Post-Communist Studies
ISSN
0967-067X
e-ISSN
1873-6920
Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
177-200
UT code for WoS article
001575777600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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