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    Can human evolution help us understand the support for populist movements?

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    One striking aspect of the coronavirus crisis was the poor response of the right-wing populist leaders to the pandemic in countries such as the US, Britain, and Brazil. Despite this fact, the continuing voter support right-wing populist leaders attract across countries with different socio-economic traits is puzzling. In this paper, we argue in favour of a cognitive anthropological view of populism scholarship. Cognitive and evolutionary anthropology shows that mental systems common to all humans shape the way we understand the world, making some ideas more plausible than others regardless of their levels of accuracy. Even though the action of ‘building a wall’ to keep illegal migrants away can prove ultimately unfeasible and does not address real immigration issues, due to our cognitive evolution, it makes intuitive sense as a plausible option to reducing immigration. Populist leaders exploit our cognitive intuitions by providing such intractable but oftentimes intuitively-plausible ideas in order to get elected or to promote preferred policies. Furthermore, we intuitively admire powerful individuals and tend to defer to authoritative and charismatic figures as an evolutionary strategy for acquiring valued skills and negotiating hierarchies. As a result, by committing to the intuitively-plausible policies populist leaders promote, such as ‘building a wall’, they give additional credence to the political beliefs that are based on our cognitive intuitions, effectively increasing their plausibility for the “common folk”

    ‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online placemaking and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

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    This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating an unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of racist message. By creating broader visibility and wider reach of racist texts and facilitating more participation for racists, social media platforms such as Twitter normalize gendered and place-based racialization of refugees. Recently, hostility and hate became the norm in derogating the refugee identity on social media platforms. To investigate the complexity of digital racism, this article presents a unique case study on Twitter, capturing the widespread user reactions in the aftermath of the mass resettlement of Syrians in Turkey. It examines varying racialization of Syrians on the Turkish Twittersphere, using sentiment and qualitative content analyses of hashtags and mentions on Syrians, when they hit Twitter trends for Turkey for a year, first, for mundane events and, second, during the Turkish state’s occupation in Northern Syria

    Explaining Judicial Populism in Hungary – a Legal Realist Approach

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    Populizm a medialne struktury możliwości. Przypadek nowych mediów

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    Mimo że wielu autorów od dawna podkreśla znaczenie mediów jako ważnej zmiennej wyjaśniającej różne aspekty zjawiska populizmu, badania dotyczące relacji pomiędzy populizmem a mediami zintensyfikowano dopiero w ciągu ostatnich kilku lat, a ich liczba jest stosunkowo miewielka. Co zrozumiałe, jeszcze mniej jest badań, które odnosiłyby się do wykorzystania mediów społecznościowych przez aktorów populistycznych. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza wzajemnych związków pomiędzy populizmem a serwisami społecznościowymi traktowanymi jako struktury medialnych możliwości. Drugim z zadań jest krytyczna analiza obecnego w wielu tekstach założenia o prostej, funkcjonalnej relacji pomiędzy mediami społecznościowymi a populizmem. Służyć temu będzie rekonstrukcja pola badań nad wykorzystaniem nowych mediów przez aktorów populistycznych, prezentacja głównych nurtów oraz rezultatów tych badań. Podkreślić należy, że artykuł koncentruje się na aktorach politycznych, a nie posługujących się strategiami populistycznymi społecznych użytkownikach nowych mediów

    Populism and pronatality policy with reference to BIH

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    Boris Kollár and OĽaNO Party Communication on Facebook (Komunikácia Borisa Kollára a OľaNO na Facebooku)

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