Aligning populist worldviews of citizens to media preferences : peculiarities of an illiberal political context

Pajnik, Mojca (author), Berzelak, Jernej (author), Šulc, Ajda (author)

In this article we look at how people’s relations to the media shape their anti-establishment, people-centrist and exclusionist populist worldviews. We propose to establish the relation between the media and populist attitudes by measuring media consumption with citizen’s attitudes towards a democracy-related function of the media, and we postulate that research should consider the peculiarities of political situations. The results of a representative public opinion survey in Slovenia confirmed a relation between tabloid media consumption, negative media attitudes and populist worldviews – however, with differences according to specific dimensions of populism, reflecting characteristics of an illiberal political landscape in the country.

• Language: English
• Keywords: populist attitude, media preferences, illiberalism, public opinion, Slovenia, political parties
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 554-573
• Numbering: Vol. 39, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-144552
• UDC: 329:316.653(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 2159-9173
• DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2023.2180734
• COBISS.SI-ID: 143597059
• Publication date in RUL: 01.03.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: East European politics
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 2159-9173
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519219225

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: populizem, javno mnenje, mediji, politične stranke, Slovenija