Transnationalism and Populist Networks in a Digital Era

Canada and the Freedom Convoy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9976894
AutoresJean-Christophe Boucher (0000-0001-5529-6572, University of Calgary), Lauren Rutherglen (University of Calgary), So Youn Kim (0009-0005-4807-6746, University of Calgary)
Año2024
Volumen68
Número4
Fecha de publicación2024-09-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/isq/sqae131
OpenAlexW4403217812
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas66

s The growth and success of right-wing populist movements globally has been remarkable since the early 2010s. Indeed, populist parties in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North America have received tremendous electoral success, shaping a movement for the people and by the people within the political sphere. To what extent do populist movements influence other such programs across national borders? Research has suggested that globalization has facilitated the spread of populist ideology. Transnational populism emphasizes the “people” as a “horizontal, membership-based collective with membership premised on an in/out logic between nations, allowing populist national movements to engage and share a global ideological program. This paper seeks to understand and measure to what extent populism has become a transnational movement and identify how populism moves across national borders through online political participation. To explore this question, we collected over 6.7 million digital trace data on X/Twitter during Canada’s January–February 2022 Freedom Convoy movement. Receiving support from thousands of citizens, the Freedom Convoy revealed the ability of populist ideology to move aimlessly across international borders. We used a deep-learning model applied to text analysis to implement a classification task to measure populist narratives during the movement

Freedom of movement · Globalization · Ideology · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Social movement · Sociology · Transnationalism · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics