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Politics of nostalgia and populism: evidence from Turkey

dc.contributor.departmentMIReKoç (Migration Research Program at Koç University)
dc.contributor.kuauthorElçi, Ezgi
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteResearch Center
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T12:45:31Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article scrutinizes the relationship between collective nostalgia and populism. Different populist figures utilize nostalgia by referring to their country's 'good old' glorious days and exploiting resentment of the elites and establishment. Populists instrumentalize nostalgia in order to create their populist heartland, which is a retrospectively constructed utopia based on an abandoned but undead past. Using two original datasets from Turkey, this study first analyzes whether collective nostalgia characterizes populist attitudes of the electorate. The results illustrate that collective nostalgia has a significantly positive relationship with populist attitudes even after controlling for various independent variables, including religiosity, partisanship, satisfaction with life and Euroscepticism. Secondly, the study tests whether nostalgic messages affect populist attitudes using an online survey experiment. The results indicate that Ottoman nostalgia helps increase populist attitudes. Kemalist nostalgia, however, has a weak direct effect on populist attitudes that disappears after controlling for party preference.
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.sponsorshipKoç University Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.description.versionPublisher version
dc.description.volume52
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0007123420000666
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dc.identifier.filenameinventorynoIR02749
dc.identifier.issn0007-1234
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/2443
dc.keywordsNostalgia
dc.keywordsPopulism
dc.keywordsPopulist attitudes
dc.keywordsSurvey analysis
dc.keywordsSurvey experiment
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
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dc.relation.ispartofBritish Journal of Political Science
dc.relation.urihttp://cdm21054.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IR/id/9393
dc.subjectRadical right
dc.subjectPopulist
dc.subjectRight-Wing populism
dc.titlePolitics of nostalgia and populism: evidence from Turkey
dc.typeJournal Article
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