Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2022, 58(2): 181-204 | DOI: 10.13060/csr.2022.015

Směrem k principům populistické komunikace? Téma korupce ve volebních programech českých politických stran

Vladimír Naxera

Fakulta filozofická, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni

The article examines how use of the topic of corruption in the election manifestos of Czech political parties has transformed over the course of the entire post-communist period. The theoretical framework used to grasp the anti-corruption positions expressed in the manifestos is populism. The study builds on the discussions about mainstream political actors (not) adopting populist principles and on the methodological debate around the possibilities offered by populist communication research. Using a content analysis and the principle of triplets, the article analyses the election manifestos of all the parties that were successful in the parliamentary elections between 1990 and 2017 in order to determine whether there was a stronger presence of populist principles in communication on the topic of corruption. Among other things, the study shows that: (1) statements on corruption that are consistent with a populist communication strategy can be found in parties that are not commonly understood as populist throughout the entire researched period; (2) mainstream parties did not respond to the success of populists in the 2010, 2013, and 2017 elections by adopting populist principles; (3) the populists who won a share of power strengthened the elements of populist communication in the next election manifesto.

Klíčová slova: populism, corruption, anti-corruption, measuring populism, populist communication, Czech politics, party manifestos

Vloženo: 8. leden 2021; Revidováno: 17. březen 2022; Přijato: 21. březen 2022; Zveřejněno online: 27. duben 2022; Zveřejněno: 16. květen 2022  Zobrazit citaci