Blendi Kajsiu
Biographic Data
| ID | 280537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blendi Kajsiu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blendi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kajsiu |
| SIGNATURE | KAJSIU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Antioquia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6256-2995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
El populismo en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia (2002-2022)
Este artículo argumenta que el petrismo ha sido el único proyecto político claramente populista en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia durante el primer cuarto del siglo XXI. Para desarrollar este argumento, categorizo un proyecto político como populista cuando articula los conceptos del pueblo y de la voluntad popular en oposición al concepto de la élite corrupta y recibe un apoyo electoral más fuerte dentro de los estratos bajos que dentr…
Beyond populism
The tendency to identify anti-politics with populism obscures the diverse ideological positions from which the political class and political institutions are denounced and rejected. It is important, therefore, to distinguish between populist and non-populist anti-politics discourses. An anti-politics discourse can be classified as populist only when it is articulated with key concepts of populism, understood as a thin ideology, such as popular so…
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”
This article argues that while nationalist discourses construct “the people” through positive identity practices, populist discourses articulate it through negative identity practices. Nationalism emphasizes who “the people” are, by identifying a number of core positive characteristics that they share, such as ethnicity, language, culture, history, religion, or political rights and civic traditions. Populism, on the other hand, defines “the peopl…
La votación de clase en las elecciones presidenciales 2006-2018 en los principales centros urbanos de Colombia
Objective/Context: This article has two goals. First and foremost, it seeks to demonstrate an increase in class voting during the 2018 presidential elections in Colombia compared to electoral years 2006, 2010, and 2014. Second, the article aims to develop a possible explanation of this phenomenon. We hypothesize that class voting in the 2018 presidential elections increased due to growing ideological polarization between the two presidential cand…
Public or private corruption
This is a summary of some of the main arguments and findings of the book ¿Corrupción pública o privada? La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anti-corrupción en Colombia, Ecuador y Albania (Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). The book compares the official anti-corruption discourses of president Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) in Colombia, president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) in Ecuador and prime minister Edi Rama (2013-present) in Albania. It show…
La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anticorrupción en Colombia y Ecuador, 2002-2017
Object/Context: This article analyses and compares the ideological dimension of anticorruption discourses and policies in Colombia during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) and in Ecuador during the presidency of Rafael Correa (2007-2017). Methodology: We develop an ideological and discourse analysis of corruption discourses combining the theoretical framework of Laclau and Mouffe on discourse analysis w…
Las ideologías y movilizaciones políticas del Uribismo y Petrismo
Aunque el Uribismo y el Petrismo son los dos proyectos más importantes en la derecha e izquierda colombiana, respectivamente, no existen estudios académicos que comparen sus ideologías y movilizaciones sociales. Este artículo propone llenar este vacío comparando la dimensión ideológica de cada proyecto y el apoyo electoral que reciben entre diferentes estratos sociales. A tal fin, utilizo un marco teórico para el análisis de ideologías desarrolla…
The Colombian Right
Uribismo, which refers to the political movement organized by, and around, the former President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe Velez (2002–2010) and his political party Centro Democrático, is the most important political force in Colombia today. Most journalists and academics in the country characterize it as a multiclass Right-wing neo-populist movement that enjoys uniform support across different social classes. I challenge this understanding, argui…
The Ideological Malleability of Corruption. A Comparative Analysis of Official Corruption Discourses in Albania and Colombia, 2010-2017
Corruption literature has paid little attention to the way corruption discourses reflect specific ideological agendas. This paper aims to address such shortcoming by comparing official corruption discourses in Albania and Colombia during the last seven years. The paper shows that despite similar levels of corruption, the leaders of the two countries articulate corruption in slightly different ways. While the prime minster of Albania Edi Rama arti…
Una Teoría Socio-Morfológica Del Populismo
Este artículo desarrolla una teoría del populismo que combina el análisis morfológico de las ideologías de Michael Freeden (1996) con el análisis sociológico del populismo como proyecto político desarrollado por Jansen (2011). A pesar de sus aportes ninguna de estas dos perspectivas es suficiente por sí sola para identificar el fenómeno populista en su totalidad. Por lo tanto, la combinación de estas dos perspectivas ofrece el mejor marco teórico…
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. It did so in four interrelated ways…
Polarization without radicalization
Since the collapse of communism, political radicalism has been an important part of the political scene in Europe. The 2008 financial crisis furthered this trend, giving rise to new waves of radicalization. Albania appears to be a curious exception to this trend. Unlike most other countries in Eastern Europe, there have been no successful radical parties in Albania since the collapse of communism in 1991. In the same fashion, social protests in A…
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
The birth of corruption and the politics of anti-corruption in Albania, 1991–2005
This paper analyzes the transformation of the signifier “corruption” in the Albanian public sphere during the period 1991–2005 from a discourse analysis approach. The aim is not to trace corruption in its presence and consequences, but to show how different articulations of corruption supported different agendas. More specifically, this paper aims to show how the corruption discourse that dominated Albanian public discussion during the period 199…
The Instrumentalisation of Media in Albania
The importance of the media for democracy is at least twofold; they provide a space for public deliberation, and they serve as a watchdog of accountability over the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. This paper argues that the media in Albania fail to perform these two functions due to their ownership and financing structure. The key print media outlets in Albania are owned by private individuals or businesses who use and finance them…
Down with Politics
Dissatisfaction with politics and political parties has given rise to a strong antipolitics discourse in Albania. Growing numbers feel unrepresented and see politics and political parties as the source of, rather than the solution to, the country’s problems. In this article the author argues that the crisis of representation in Albania does not result simply from the inability of political parties to represent different social groups but from the…
Polarization without radicalization
Since the collapse of communism, political radicalism has been an important part of the political scene in Europe. The 2008 financial crisis furthered this trend, giving rise to new waves of radicalization. Albania appears to be a curious exception to this trend. Unlike most other countries in Eastern Europe, there have been no successful radical parties in Albania since the collapse of communism in 1991. In the same fashion, social protests in A…
Beyond populism
The tendency to identify anti-politics with populism obscures the diverse ideological positions from which the political class and political institutions are denounced and rejected. It is important, therefore, to distinguish between populist and non-populist anti-politics discourses. An anti-politics discourse can be classified as populist only when it is articulated with key concepts of populism, understood as a thin ideology, such as popular so…
The Colombian Right
Uribismo, which refers to the political movement organized by, and around, the former President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe Velez (2002–2010) and his political party Centro Democrático, is the most important political force in Colombia today. Most journalists and academics in the country characterize it as a multiclass Right-wing neo-populist movement that enjoys uniform support across different social classes. I challenge this understanding, argui…
La votación de clase en las elecciones presidenciales 2006-2018 en los principales centros urbanos de Colombia
Objective/Context: This article has two goals. First and foremost, it seeks to demonstrate an increase in class voting during the 2018 presidential elections in Colombia compared to electoral years 2006, 2010, and 2014. Second, the article aims to develop a possible explanation of this phenomenon. We hypothesize that class voting in the 2018 presidential elections increased due to growing ideological polarization between the two presidential cand…
Las ideologías y movilizaciones políticas del Uribismo y Petrismo
Aunque el Uribismo y el Petrismo son los dos proyectos más importantes en la derecha e izquierda colombiana, respectivamente, no existen estudios académicos que comparen sus ideologías y movilizaciones sociales. Este artículo propone llenar este vacío comparando la dimensión ideológica de cada proyecto y el apoyo electoral que reciben entre diferentes estratos sociales. A tal fin, utilizo un marco teórico para el análisis de ideologías desarrolla…
Una Teoría Socio-Morfológica Del Populismo
Este artículo desarrolla una teoría del populismo que combina el análisis morfológico de las ideologías de Michael Freeden (1996) con el análisis sociológico del populismo como proyecto político desarrollado por Jansen (2011). A pesar de sus aportes ninguna de estas dos perspectivas es suficiente por sí sola para identificar el fenómeno populista en su totalidad. Por lo tanto, la combinación de estas dos perspectivas ofrece el mejor marco teórico…
The birth of corruption and the politics of anti-corruption in Albania, 1991–2005
This paper analyzes the transformation of the signifier “corruption” in the Albanian public sphere during the period 1991–2005 from a discourse analysis approach. The aim is not to trace corruption in its presence and consequences, but to show how different articulations of corruption supported different agendas. More specifically, this paper aims to show how the corruption discourse that dominated Albanian public discussion during the period 199…
Down with Politics
Dissatisfaction with politics and political parties has given rise to a strong antipolitics discourse in Albania. Growing numbers feel unrepresented and see politics and political parties as the source of, rather than the solution to, the country’s problems. In this article the author argues that the crisis of representation in Albania does not result simply from the inability of political parties to represent different social groups but from the…
Public or private corruption
This is a summary of some of the main arguments and findings of the book ¿Corrupción pública o privada? La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anti-corrupción en Colombia, Ecuador y Albania (Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). The book compares the official anti-corruption discourses of president Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) in Colombia, president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) in Ecuador and prime minister Edi Rama (2013-present) in Albania. It show…
The Ideological Malleability of Corruption. A Comparative Analysis of Official Corruption Discourses in Albania and Colombia, 2010-2017
Corruption literature has paid little attention to the way corruption discourses reflect specific ideological agendas. This paper aims to address such shortcoming by comparing official corruption discourses in Albania and Colombia during the last seven years. The paper shows that despite similar levels of corruption, the leaders of the two countries articulate corruption in slightly different ways. While the prime minster of Albania Edi Rama arti…
Down with Politics
Dissatisfaction with politics and political parties has given rise to a strong antipolitics discourse in Albania. Growing numbers feel unrepresented and see politics and political parties as the source of, rather than the solution to, the country’s problems. In this article the author argues that the crisis of representation in Albania does not result simply from the inability of political parties to represent different social groups but from the…
The Instrumentalisation of Media in Albania
The importance of the media for democracy is at least twofold; they provide a space for public deliberation, and they serve as a watchdog of accountability over the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. This paper argues that the media in Albania fail to perform these two functions due to their ownership and financing structure. The key print media outlets in Albania are owned by private individuals or businesses who use and finance them…
The birth of corruption and the politics of anti-corruption in Albania, 1991–2005
This paper analyzes the transformation of the signifier “corruption” in the Albanian public sphere during the period 1991–2005 from a discourse analysis approach. The aim is not to trace corruption in its presence and consequences, but to show how different articulations of corruption supported different agendas. More specifically, this paper aims to show how the corruption discourse that dominated Albanian public discussion during the period 199…
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. It did so in four interrelated ways…
Polarization without radicalization
Since the collapse of communism, political radicalism has been an important part of the political scene in Europe. The 2008 financial crisis furthered this trend, giving rise to new waves of radicalization. Albania appears to be a curious exception to this trend. Unlike most other countries in Eastern Europe, there have been no successful radical parties in Albania since the collapse of communism in 1991. In the same fashion, social protests in A…
Una Teoría Socio-Morfológica Del Populismo
Este artículo desarrolla una teoría del populismo que combina el análisis morfológico de las ideologías de Michael Freeden (1996) con el análisis sociológico del populismo como proyecto político desarrollado por Jansen (2011). A pesar de sus aportes ninguna de estas dos perspectivas es suficiente por sí sola para identificar el fenómeno populista en su totalidad. Por lo tanto, la combinación de estas dos perspectivas ofrece el mejor marco teórico…
The Ideological Malleability of Corruption. A Comparative Analysis of Official Corruption Discourses in Albania and Colombia, 2010-2017
Corruption literature has paid little attention to the way corruption discourses reflect specific ideological agendas. This paper aims to address such shortcoming by comparing official corruption discourses in Albania and Colombia during the last seven years. The paper shows that despite similar levels of corruption, the leaders of the two countries articulate corruption in slightly different ways. While the prime minster of Albania Edi Rama arti…
The Colombian Right
Uribismo, which refers to the political movement organized by, and around, the former President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe Velez (2002–2010) and his political party Centro Democrático, is the most important political force in Colombia today. Most journalists and academics in the country characterize it as a multiclass Right-wing neo-populist movement that enjoys uniform support across different social classes. I challenge this understanding, argui…
La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anticorrupción en Colombia y Ecuador, 2002-2017
Object/Context: This article analyses and compares the ideological dimension of anticorruption discourses and policies in Colombia during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) and in Ecuador during the presidency of Rafael Correa (2007-2017). Methodology: We develop an ideological and discourse analysis of corruption discourses combining the theoretical framework of Laclau and Mouffe on discourse analysis w…
Las ideologías y movilizaciones políticas del Uribismo y Petrismo
Aunque el Uribismo y el Petrismo son los dos proyectos más importantes en la derecha e izquierda colombiana, respectivamente, no existen estudios académicos que comparen sus ideologías y movilizaciones sociales. Este artículo propone llenar este vacío comparando la dimensión ideológica de cada proyecto y el apoyo electoral que reciben entre diferentes estratos sociales. A tal fin, utilizo un marco teórico para el análisis de ideologías desarrolla…
Public or private corruption
This is a summary of some of the main arguments and findings of the book ¿Corrupción pública o privada? La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anti-corrupción en Colombia, Ecuador y Albania (Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). The book compares the official anti-corruption discourses of president Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) in Colombia, president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) in Ecuador and prime minister Edi Rama (2013-present) in Albania. It show…
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”
This article argues that while nationalist discourses construct “the people” through positive identity practices, populist discourses articulate it through negative identity practices. Nationalism emphasizes who “the people” are, by identifying a number of core positive characteristics that they share, such as ethnicity, language, culture, history, religion, or political rights and civic traditions. Populism, on the other hand, defines “the peopl…
La votación de clase en las elecciones presidenciales 2006-2018 en los principales centros urbanos de Colombia
Objective/Context: This article has two goals. First and foremost, it seeks to demonstrate an increase in class voting during the 2018 presidential elections in Colombia compared to electoral years 2006, 2010, and 2014. Second, the article aims to develop a possible explanation of this phenomenon. We hypothesize that class voting in the 2018 presidential elections increased due to growing ideological polarization between the two presidential cand…
Beyond populism
The tendency to identify anti-politics with populism obscures the diverse ideological positions from which the political class and political institutions are denounced and rejected. It is important, therefore, to distinguish between populist and non-populist anti-politics discourses. An anti-politics discourse can be classified as populist only when it is articulated with key concepts of populism, understood as a thin ideology, such as popular so…
El populismo en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia (2002-2022)
Este artículo argumenta que el petrismo ha sido el único proyecto político claramente populista en las elecciones presidenciales de Colombia durante el primer cuarto del siglo XXI. Para desarrollar este argumento, categorizo un proyecto político como populista cuando articula los conceptos del pueblo y de la voluntad popular en oposición al concepto de la élite corrupta y recibe un apoyo electoral más fuerte dentro de los estratos bajos que dentr…
Political science (15 works) · Politics (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (7 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Language change (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)