Populism in the Manifestos of Latvian Political Parties: Increasingly Used but Ineffective?

Ilze Balcere

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2014, vol. 45, issue 4, 477-497

Abstract: It is often stated that we live in an era of populist zeitgeist, namely, that populism today has become part of everyday politics. Despite systematic attempts to investigate the validity of this claim in Western European democracies, the situation in the Baltic states has been overlooked. This article marks the first attempt to investigate the dynamics of populism in the Latvian party manifestos by using novel research methodology to quantitatively estimate how populist Latvian political parties have become over an extensive period of time. Our findings reveal that in the last two decades populism has indeed become more widespread in Latvian party manifestos, yet it does not seem to be very effective and is largely primarily used by electorally unsuccessful parties.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2014.937819

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