Discursive Populism of Russian Electoral Authoritarianism

• In Event: Populism in Post-Communist Space

Brief Overview

The apolitical, de-antagonized discourse of the “internal agenda” becomes political in the foreign policy frame of the struggle against the antagonistic West, whose empty signifiers are only "strong" politics in Russian domestic political discourse.

Authors

• Oleg Kashirskikh, National Research University Higher School of Economics

• Katerina Tsetsura, Georgia State University