Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Blame Games Populists Play

• In Event: The Rise of Populism: Populist Rhetoric in Elite Discourse

Brief Overview

In this paper, we develop a theory of political communication to account for blaming strategies of populist leaders and put our theory in action through content analysis of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speeches.

Authors

• Ugur Ozdemir, University of edinburgh

• Cem Mert Dalli, Quality of Government (QoG) institute, University of Gothenburg