Straight to the Heart: Emotive and Cognitive Correlates to Populist Appeals

• In Event: Populism in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

I make use of an original dataset of campaign speeches from Austria, France, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and the US between 2002 and 2020 and explore whether populism, emotional valence, and cognitive complexity correlate in party campaign appeals.

Author

• Aaron M Stuvland, George Fox University