Political Psychology Perspectives on Populism

ISBN-13: 9783031440724 / Angielski

Gilda Sensales

Spis treści

SECTION 1

TRANS-CULTURAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSES

CHAPTER 1

Populisms of the left and right

 

John T. Jost *and Eduardo J. Rivera Pichardo,* Jacopo Custodi**,

*Department of Psychology, New York University, USA

*Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy

CHAPTER 2

Structure of Populist Representations Across European Countries

Christian Staerklé, Matteo Cavallaro, & Anna Cortijos-Bernabeu

University of Lausanne, Switzerland 

SECTION 2

THE ITALIAN CASE

CHAPTER 3

Representations of populism among Italian citizens of different political orientation. Inquiries on their lexical associative production.

 

Gilda Sensales*, Gabriele Di Cicco*, Erica Molinario**, Laura Prislei*, Arie Kruglanski***

*Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

** Department of Psychology, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

*** Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, USA

CHAPTER 4

Is this the end? How the appeal of populism changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Michele Roccato*, Pasquale Colloca**, Nicoletta Cavazza***

* Department of Psychology, Torino University, Italy

**  Department of Education Sciences, Bologna University, Italy 

***Department of Communication and Economics, Modena and Reggio Emilia University, Italy 

SECTION 3

PSYCHO-SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS IN ACTION

CHAPTER 5

COVID-19 threat and populism: The mediated effect of epistemic and significance motivations.

Erica Molinario*, Gabriele Di Cicco**, Gilda Sensales**, Arie W. Kruglanski***

* Department of Psychology, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

** Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

*** Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, USA

CHAPTER 6

The Populist Thin Ideology: From a Logical-Theoretical Analysis to the Development of a New Scale

Efisio Manunta and Maja Becker

CLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, France

CHAPTER 7

Conspiracy Ideation and Political Populism

Pellegrini Valerio, Giacomantonio Mauro, & Leone Luigi

Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

 

SECTION 4

THE POPULIST COMMUNICATION BY SOCIAL MEDIA

CHAPTER 8

Italian populist leader and their followers on Facebook (2019-2022). Empirical evidence from a psycho-social perspective.

Gabriele Di Cicco, Gilda Sensales, & Laura Prislei

Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

CHAPTER 9

Faces of Female Populism: Discursive Negotiation and Governance of Identity and Audience in Finnish and French Populist Rhetoric

Inari Sakki, University of Helsinki, Finland

Katarina Pettersson, University of Helsinki, Finland

Chapter 10

 

In form of conclusions

Gilda Sensales, Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

O autorze

Gilda Sensales is Associate Professor in Social and Political psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Her main research interests are the representations of populism, political communication between mainstream and new media, gender and sexism in politics, critical history of social psychology.

 

Blurb

This book explores the different forms of populism in European countries. Starting from a theoretical point of view, the authors outline the various psycho-social precursors of populisms that have emerged from empirical investigations. Using both mainstream and critical perspectives, the book shows how the field has stimulated multiple research programs and methodologies. The opinions, attitudes, and representations of lay persons and some populist leaders are analysed through questionnaires and analysis of political communication via social media. The volume is aimed at researchers, students, and readers with good expertise on the subject. It collects contributions from scholars in the psychological-social field, proposing an innovative reading on the social-cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that can lead to adhering to populism.