Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament

 The present moment raises many questions about the workings and resilience of parliamentary democracy in Western-type democracies, including the former socialist states of the East Central European region, where various forms of populism and illiberal democracy are taking shape. Among these, Slove...

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Main Authors: Darja Fišer, Tjaša Konovšek, Andrej Pančur
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Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2023-09-01
Series:Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave
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Online Access:https://journals-test.uni-lj.si/slovenscina2/article/view/12026
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description  The present moment raises many questions about the workings and resilience of parliamentary democracy in Western-type democracies, including the former socialist states of the East Central European region, where various forms of populism and illiberal democracy are taking shape. Among these, Slovenia is taken as a case study, since it is not only a former socialist state, but was also for a long time acknowledged as a post-socialist success story. Focusing on the central state institution in systems of parliamentary democracy, i.e. the parliament, and its members (MPs) this paper considers speech as performed during parliamentary sessions by MPs from populist and non-populist political parties between the years 1992 and 2018, the period of a fully democratic Slovene national parliament. It combines the methodological approaches of cultural history with corpus linguistics in order to map any possible differences in populist and non-populist discourse of MPs. Special attention is given to situations where MPs mentioned the public, thus testing the hypothesis that populist MPs engage more with the public as a part of their populist political style.
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spelling doaj.art-63eb7af50cab43788dba960d63a564832024-03-29T13:42:56ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave2335-27362023-09-0111110.4312/slo2.0.2023.1.69-90Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene ParliamentDarja Fišer0Tjaša Konovšek1Andrej Pančur2Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, SloveniaInstitute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, SloveniaInstitute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia  The present moment raises many questions about the workings and resilience of parliamentary democracy in Western-type democracies, including the former socialist states of the East Central European region, where various forms of populism and illiberal democracy are taking shape. Among these, Slovenia is taken as a case study, since it is not only a former socialist state, but was also for a long time acknowledged as a post-socialist success story. Focusing on the central state institution in systems of parliamentary democracy, i.e. the parliament, and its members (MPs) this paper considers speech as performed during parliamentary sessions by MPs from populist and non-populist political parties between the years 1992 and 2018, the period of a fully democratic Slovene national parliament. It combines the methodological approaches of cultural history with corpus linguistics in order to map any possible differences in populist and non-populist discourse of MPs. Special attention is given to situations where MPs mentioned the public, thus testing the hypothesis that populist MPs engage more with the public as a part of their populist political style. https://journals-test.uni-lj.si/slovenscina2/article/view/12026political partiespopulismlife-worldparliamentSlovenia
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Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave
political parties
populism
life-world
parliament
Slovenia
title Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament
title_full Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament
title_fullStr Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament
title_full_unstemmed Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament
title_short Referencing the Public by Populist and Non-populist Parties in the Slovene Parliament
title_sort referencing the public by populist and non populist parties in the slovene parliament
topic political parties
populism
life-world
parliament
Slovenia
url https://journals-test.uni-lj.si/slovenscina2/article/view/12026
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