A moral or class divide for populist parties? 'The people' in the discourse of Podemos and Vox in Spain.
Do populist parties refer to class identities in their discourses or do they, as most populism literature assumes, mainly highlight a moral distinction between 'people' and the 'elite'? To explore these questions, this research uses dictionary-based methods and discourse analysis to identify the var...
| Published in: | South European Society & Politics Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 469 - 498 |
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Dec2023
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