Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238113 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Political Science Research and Methods [ISSN:] 2049-8489 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Cambridge University Press [Place:] Cambridge [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 617-633
Publisher: 
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Abstract: 
While attention to populism is ever-increasing, the concept remains contested. This article provides a comprehensive overview of populism research and identifies tendencies to a conflation of host ideologies and populism in political science through a two-step analysis. First, we conduct a quantitative review of 884 abstracts from 2004 to 2018 using text-as-data methods. We show that scholars sit at ‘separate tables’, divided by geographical foci, methods, and host ideologies. Next, our qualitative analysis of 50 articles finds a common conflation of the populism with its host ideologies resulting in the analytical neglect of populism. We therefore urge researchers to properly distinguish populism from ‘what it travels with’ and engage more strongly with the dynamic interlinkages between thin and thick ideologies.
Subjects: 
populism
text-as-data
systematic review
meta analysis
radical right
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