Anti-Soros Conspiracy Rhetoric in Slovak Parliamentary Discourse: Actors, Narratives, and Implications

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2022.25.2.177-207" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2022.25.2.177-207</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Anti-Soros Conspiracy Rhetoric in Slovak Parliamentary Discourse: Actors, Narratives, and Implications

Original language description

This paper contributes to the very up-to-date topic of conspiracy theory. The main goal of this study is to analyse the main &apos;anti-Soros&apos; narratives within Slovak parliamentary discourse. Due to qualitative content analysis, based on N=84 parliamentary speeches and comments, the author detected four main narratives that included several conspiracies. Four concrete narratives: (1) influence on Slovak politics; (2) delegitimisation of political opponents; (3) the anti-Semitic conspiracy ground; (4) the supporter and organiser have instrumentalised George Soros to their rhetoric while combining classical conspiracies narratives. The final narrative (5) condemnation of anti-Soros rhetoric, which represents de facto only founded counter-narrative and was significantly minor. In this context, and keeping in mind that anti-Soros discourse was four times bigger than the discourse condemning the use of this rhetoric, the author argues that the continuance of this dividing verbiage based on legitimising conspiracies could contribute to further polarising Slovak politics and society. On the other hand, the popularity of conspiracy theories must lead social scientists to (re)think even more about the mainstream discourses created over the last thirty years, which conspiracy narratives naturally oppose. It should also lead to examining the actors who set the principles and boundaries of mainstream discourses.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politicke Vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

1338-5623

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

31

Pages from-to

177-207

UT code for WoS article

000908345800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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