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Portuguese politics and mainstream media have been resistant to the recent spread of populism. This article examines the specific features of Portuguese politics and media that might explain the apparent exception, and puts it to test by analysing the prevalence of populist discourses and styles of communication in different types of online media. The sample is composed of mediated and unmediated messages on immigration and corruption, two issues that are commonly present in populist discourses by both right- and left-wing political actors. Overall, the content analysis shows that although populist discourses are not recurrent in politics and media, social media have amplified the visibility of this kind of dis- courses in Portugal.
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Open Access - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Media Online Politics Populism Portugal Corruption Immigration Political Communication Political discourse
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Citation
Salgado, Susana (2018) Where’s populism? Online media and the diffusion of populist discourses and styles in Portugal. In Populist Discourses and Political Communication in Southern Europe, Symposium European Political Science. ed. S. Salgado, and Y. Stavrakakis. European Political Science, 18(1), 53-65, First Online 22 January 2018
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Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature