Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections

by Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Veronika Koller

This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027213887
• ISBN13: 9789027213884
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 333 Pages