Anu Kantola
Biographic Data
| ID | 333165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anu Kantola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anu |
| FAMILY NAME | Kantola |
| SIGNATURE | KANTOLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7868-0956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
When the Logics of Media, Law, and Politics Collide: The Mediatization of Finnish Constitutional Review
Mediatization scholarship has extensively analyzed how media logic affects societal institutions. Media logic is, however, not the only powerful institutional logic at play in modern societies. Other institutions have their respective logics that reciprocally impact processes of mediatization. In this article, we show how the logics of the media, law, and politics collide in constitutional review at the heart of democratic politics. Constitutiona…
Nordic authoritarianism: Child‐rearing values and political behavior in a multiparty context
This article explores how authoritarianism as a factor in child‐rearing values (CRV) is associated with political orientation, party support, and policy preferences among voters and societal elites in the Nordic context, which is characterized by social trust and solidarity, feelings of affinity, and a modest degree of ideological polarization. Based on a representative citizen survey conducted in 2018 (n = 4,076) and an elite survey conducted in…
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state
The impact of individuals’ fairness predispositions on public support for the welfare state receives less attention than the effect of economic self-interest on this support. Amid growing income differences even in previously egalitarian Nordic countries, predispositions about what is fair in society are rapidly becoming more politically salient. We examine how fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor are linked to the support for t…
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment
To contribute to studies on upper classes' self-justification, in this article, we aim to develop a perspective to explore how the increasingly wealthy upper classes seek to morally justify themselves in the realm of politics. Drawing on Norbert Elias's work, we suggest that amid the current economic and technological turbulence, the wealthy upper classes form dynamic wealth elite figurations that devise shared symbolics and programmes to coordin…
Silence of the wealthy: How the wealthiest 0.1% avoid the media and resort to hidden strategies of advocacy
As the wealthiest groups have emerged as increasingly significant in societies, this article explores society's wealth elites from the vantage point of media and communication studies. Bridging the literature on policy advocacy and mediatisation, the article examines the hidden and public advocacy strategies of the wealthy. Drawing from 90 interviews with the wealthiest 0.1% in Finland, this study shows the wealthy's highly strategic stance towar…
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: How Do Experience and Expectation of Status Decline Shape Electoral Behaviour
We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Without precise measures of both perceptions, it has been difficult to distinguish which (or both) is mos…
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics
The last few decades have been marked by discourses that challenge many basic presumptions supporting liberal democracy. Populist parties in particular have raised criticism against democratic systems, and authoritarian programmes have made electoral gains. This article offers the elite's perspective on this phenomenon, which is often discussed in the context of lower income groups. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 90 Finnish top earners,…
Sanattomien sopimusten puolustajat: Eduskunnan perustuslakivaliokunnan suhde mediajulkisuuteen
Kansanedustajista koostuvalla eduskunnan perustuslakivaliokunnalla on Suomessa monista muista maista poiketen merkittävää vastuuta lakien perustuslainmukaisuuden tulkinnassa. Tutkimme tässä artikkelissa, miten julkisuuden ja median paine tuntuu perustuslakivaliokunnan työssä, kun median merkitys yhteiskunnassa on kasvanut. Selvitämme valiokunnan jäsenten, virkamiesten ja valiokunnan kuulemien asiantuntijoiden haastatteluiden avulla, miten media…
Tackling the emotional toll together: How journalists address harassment with connective practices
In this article, we examine how journalists address and tackle online harassment by connective practices that involve joint action with peers and editors that we find are particularly effective in addressing the emotional effects of harassment. Theoretically, we bridge community of practice research with theories of emotional labour to develop a novel perspective to examine online harassment. Drawing on 22 interviews with Finnish journalists, we …
Gloomy at the Top: How the Wealthiest 0.1% Feel about the Rest
Growing inequalities have prompted research on the wealthiest groups and their cohesive practices and ideologies. This article suggests that emotional expression - how the members of the wealthy upper class feel about themselves and the rest of society - provides a way to examine their position in society. Drawing from interviews with business executives who belong to the richest 0.1% in Finland and to their society's power elites, I argue that j…
Affect in governmentality: Top executives managing the affective milieu of market liberalisation
This article explores the role of affect in governmentality and develops the concept of the ‘affective milieu’ to better understand liberal forms of managerial control in market environments. Taking Foucault’s writings on consent, security and technologies of self as a vantage point, we suggest that the regimes of governmentality are both rational and affective milieus and propose that the Spinozan–Deleuzian affect theory provides an entry point …
Wealth Elite Moralities: Wealthy Entrepreneurs' Moral Boundaries
This article examines the moral boundary work of wealthy Finnish entrepreneurs belonging to the country's top 0.1 per cent of earners. Through 28 semi-structured interviews, we show how these members of the wealth elite construct moral boundaries to legitimise their growing distance from other income groups in a Nordic welfare society. The super-rich entrepreneurs construct self-identities based on hard work, persistence and normality, draw moral…
A Stronghold of Routine Corporatism? The Involvement of Interest Groups in Policy Making in Finland
While the Nordic countries have a tradition of integrating privileged interest groups into policy making, a number of studies have argued that this Nordic ‘routine corporatism’ has changed over the last decades. Studies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden demonstrate that interest groups are less frequently involved in committees preparing policy, that lobbying of parliament has become more important and that the position of citizen groups has strength…
Liquid Journalism
Emotional styles of power: Corporate leaders in Finnish business media
Drawing from a growing body of research that focuses on emotions as social and cultural phenomena, this article examines how publicly performed emotions can be employed in the exercise of power. The article uses William Reddy’s ideas on emotional regimes. A qualitative analysis of Finnish business magazine Talouselämä tracks how corporate leaders have performed publicly in Finland from 1940 to 2005. I suggest that corporate capitalism developed a…
Mediatization of Power: Corporate CEOs in Flexible Capitalism
The present article analyses the mediatization of corporate power with a special focus on the work of the CEO. A review of the literature on the role of the media in corporate management, especially in the work of corporate leaders, shows how the techniques of power in corporate management have become mediatized. Different media have become increasingly important for the work of corporate leaders. More importantly, media have become tools of powe…
The therapeutic imaginary in memory work: Mediating the Finnish Civil War in Tampere
The article analyses reconciliatory practices on war remembrance that draw from the imaginary of therapy. The decisive battles of the Finnish Civil War took place on the streets of Tampere in 1918. Only 90 years later, in 2008, was the city of Tampere able to organise a remembrance process, which mediated the war memory through exhibition, street drama, online discussion forums and mainstream media. The remembrance encouraged the disclosure of hi…
Branded revolutionaries: Circulated gurus as management tools in soft capitalism
The call for revolution has become a standard technique in corporate capitalism. Management fashions and gurus turn revolutionary ideas into saleable packages of corporate consulting. Here, the focus is on the case of Gary Hamel. I show how an individual guru becomes the central symbolic pole of the circulation of revolutionary ideas. Publishing companies, consultancies, universities and different media package and disseminate the revolutionary g…
Seize the Moment: Financial Crisis and the Making of the Finnish Competition State
In this paper we examine how Finnish Governments dismantled the Nordic welfare state paradigm from the 1990s onwards and adopted Schumpeterian ideas of a competitive workfare state. In the early 1990s, Finland went through a financial crisis that was the most severe in OECD countries since the Second World War and came to play a major role in the paradigm change. In the crisis, the Ministry of Finance gained a central role as a consensus-building…
Mediated scandals as social dramas: Transforming the moral order in Finland
In this article we apply Viktor Turner's ideas on liminality and social dramas to scandals involving the Finnish political and economic elites that have occurred since the early 1970s. We suggest that mediated scandals are transformative social dramas through which society's moral codes are negotiated. In Finland, scandals have increased considerably and have become more dangerous for Finnish elites because they have caused increasing numbers to …
From gardeners to revolutionaries: The rise of the liquid ethos in political journalism
In many newsrooms, journalistic work has increasingly been reorganized in ways that make it more flexible, multi-skilled and assertive, or even ‘liquid’. Empirical studies on liquid journalism, however, are scarce. This article examines how the rise of liquidity can be seen in the work-related ethos of Finnish political journalists. The article is based on 25 in-depth interviews of political journalists. In the findings, three generational groups…
The rise of charismatic authority styles in corporate capitalism
The paper examines the rise of the anti‐hierarchical ‘flat’ and revolutionary styles of authority that emerged in late twentieth century corporate capitalism and suggests that the corporate world developed styles of authority simultaneously built on leaders’ personalised approach and revolutionary self‐actualisation and empowerment of employees. These styles are examined in the light of Max Weber’s idea of charismatic authority. The rise of chari…
Loyalties in Flux: The Changing Politics of Citizenship
Institutional politics have become increasingly market oriented, consensual and therapeutic. The emerging form of political governance relies on consensual expertise and paternal care rather than on political differences and ideologies. These changes have an impact on the ways in which citizenship is defined and articulated. The classical ideals of an active polis citizenship (i.e. the ideas of dialogue, joint political action and political proce…
Leaving Public Places: Antipolitical and Antipublic Forces of the Transnational Economy
Over the last twenty years there has been a change of political regime from state controlled markets to market liberalisation. This article asks how are these changes affecting the role of the public sphere? The particular case is the economic crisis of Finland in the 1990s. The article looks at interviews of the country’s most important political decision-makers: how do they perceive the role of politics and public in the new market regime? A ne…
Seize the Moment: Financial Crisis and the Making of the Finnish Competition State
In this paper we examine how Finnish Governments dismantled the Nordic welfare state paradigm from the 1990s onwards and adopted Schumpeterian ideas of a competitive workfare state. In the early 1990s, Finland went through a financial crisis that was the most severe in OECD countries since the Second World War and came to play a major role in the paradigm change. In the crisis, the Ministry of Finance gained a central role as a consensus-building…
Wealth Elite Moralities: Wealthy Entrepreneurs' Moral Boundaries
This article examines the moral boundary work of wealthy Finnish entrepreneurs belonging to the country's top 0.1 per cent of earners. Through 28 semi-structured interviews, we show how these members of the wealth elite construct moral boundaries to legitimise their growing distance from other income groups in a Nordic welfare society. The super-rich entrepreneurs construct self-identities based on hard work, persistence and normality, draw moral…
A Stronghold of Routine Corporatism? The Involvement of Interest Groups in Policy Making in Finland
While the Nordic countries have a tradition of integrating privileged interest groups into policy making, a number of studies have argued that this Nordic ‘routine corporatism’ has changed over the last decades. Studies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden demonstrate that interest groups are less frequently involved in committees preparing policy, that lobbying of parliament has become more important and that the position of citizen groups has strength…
From gardeners to revolutionaries: The rise of the liquid ethos in political journalism
In many newsrooms, journalistic work has increasingly been reorganized in ways that make it more flexible, multi-skilled and assertive, or even ‘liquid’. Empirical studies on liquid journalism, however, are scarce. This article examines how the rise of liquidity can be seen in the work-related ethos of Finnish political journalists. The article is based on 25 in-depth interviews of political journalists. In the findings, three generational groups…
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: How Do Experience and Expectation of Status Decline Shape Electoral Behaviour
We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Without precise measures of both perceptions, it has been difficult to distinguish which (or both) is mos…
Tackling the emotional toll together: How journalists address harassment with connective practices
In this article, we examine how journalists address and tackle online harassment by connective practices that involve joint action with peers and editors that we find are particularly effective in addressing the emotional effects of harassment. Theoretically, we bridge community of practice research with theories of emotional labour to develop a novel perspective to examine online harassment. Drawing on 22 interviews with Finnish journalists, we …
Mediated scandals as social dramas: Transforming the moral order in Finland
In this article we apply Viktor Turner's ideas on liminality and social dramas to scandals involving the Finnish political and economic elites that have occurred since the early 1970s. We suggest that mediated scandals are transformative social dramas through which society's moral codes are negotiated. In Finland, scandals have increased considerably and have become more dangerous for Finnish elites because they have caused increasing numbers to …
Gloomy at the Top: How the Wealthiest 0.1% Feel about the Rest
Growing inequalities have prompted research on the wealthiest groups and their cohesive practices and ideologies. This article suggests that emotional expression - how the members of the wealthy upper class feel about themselves and the rest of society - provides a way to examine their position in society. Drawing from interviews with business executives who belong to the richest 0.1% in Finland and to their society's power elites, I argue that j…
The rise of charismatic authority styles in corporate capitalism
The paper examines the rise of the anti‐hierarchical ‘flat’ and revolutionary styles of authority that emerged in late twentieth century corporate capitalism and suggests that the corporate world developed styles of authority simultaneously built on leaders’ personalised approach and revolutionary self‐actualisation and empowerment of employees. These styles are examined in the light of Max Weber’s idea of charismatic authority. The rise of chari…
Loyalties in Flux: The Changing Politics of Citizenship
Institutional politics have become increasingly market oriented, consensual and therapeutic. The emerging form of political governance relies on consensual expertise and paternal care rather than on political differences and ideologies. These changes have an impact on the ways in which citizenship is defined and articulated. The classical ideals of an active polis citizenship (i.e. the ideas of dialogue, joint political action and political proce…
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment
To contribute to studies on upper classes' self-justification, in this article, we aim to develop a perspective to explore how the increasingly wealthy upper classes seek to morally justify themselves in the realm of politics. Drawing on Norbert Elias's work, we suggest that amid the current economic and technological turbulence, the wealthy upper classes form dynamic wealth elite figurations that devise shared symbolics and programmes to coordin…
Silence of the wealthy: How the wealthiest 0.1% avoid the media and resort to hidden strategies of advocacy
As the wealthiest groups have emerged as increasingly significant in societies, this article explores society's wealth elites from the vantage point of media and communication studies. Bridging the literature on policy advocacy and mediatisation, the article examines the hidden and public advocacy strategies of the wealthy. Drawing from 90 interviews with the wealthiest 0.1% in Finland, this study shows the wealthy's highly strategic stance towar…
Mediatization of Power: Corporate CEOs in Flexible Capitalism
The present article analyses the mediatization of corporate power with a special focus on the work of the CEO. A review of the literature on the role of the media in corporate management, especially in the work of corporate leaders, shows how the techniques of power in corporate management have become mediatized. Different media have become increasingly important for the work of corporate leaders. More importantly, media have become tools of powe…
The therapeutic imaginary in memory work: Mediating the Finnish Civil War in Tampere
The article analyses reconciliatory practices on war remembrance that draw from the imaginary of therapy. The decisive battles of the Finnish Civil War took place on the streets of Tampere in 1918. Only 90 years later, in 2008, was the city of Tampere able to organise a remembrance process, which mediated the war memory through exhibition, street drama, online discussion forums and mainstream media. The remembrance encouraged the disclosure of hi…
Nordic authoritarianism: Child‐rearing values and political behavior in a multiparty context
This article explores how authoritarianism as a factor in child‐rearing values (CRV) is associated with political orientation, party support, and policy preferences among voters and societal elites in the Nordic context, which is characterized by social trust and solidarity, feelings of affinity, and a modest degree of ideological polarization. Based on a representative citizen survey conducted in 2018 (n = 4,076) and an elite survey conducted in…
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics
The last few decades have been marked by discourses that challenge many basic presumptions supporting liberal democracy. Populist parties in particular have raised criticism against democratic systems, and authoritarian programmes have made electoral gains. This article offers the elite's perspective on this phenomenon, which is often discussed in the context of lower income groups. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 90 Finnish top earners,…
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state
The impact of individuals’ fairness predispositions on public support for the welfare state receives less attention than the effect of economic self-interest on this support. Amid growing income differences even in previously egalitarian Nordic countries, predispositions about what is fair in society are rapidly becoming more politically salient. We examine how fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor are linked to the support for t…
Emotional styles of power: Corporate leaders in Finnish business media
Drawing from a growing body of research that focuses on emotions as social and cultural phenomena, this article examines how publicly performed emotions can be employed in the exercise of power. The article uses William Reddy’s ideas on emotional regimes. A qualitative analysis of Finnish business magazine Talouselämä tracks how corporate leaders have performed publicly in Finland from 1940 to 2005. I suggest that corporate capitalism developed a…
Branded revolutionaries: Circulated gurus as management tools in soft capitalism
The call for revolution has become a standard technique in corporate capitalism. Management fashions and gurus turn revolutionary ideas into saleable packages of corporate consulting. Here, the focus is on the case of Gary Hamel. I show how an individual guru becomes the central symbolic pole of the circulation of revolutionary ideas. Publishing companies, consultancies, universities and different media package and disseminate the revolutionary g…
Leaving Public Places: Antipolitical and Antipublic Forces of the Transnational Economy
Over the last twenty years there has been a change of political regime from state controlled markets to market liberalisation. This article asks how are these changes affecting the role of the public sphere? The particular case is the economic crisis of Finland in the 1990s. The article looks at interviews of the country’s most important political decision-makers: how do they perceive the role of politics and public in the new market regime? A ne…
Loyalties in Flux: The Changing Politics of Citizenship
Institutional politics have become increasingly market oriented, consensual and therapeutic. The emerging form of political governance relies on consensual expertise and paternal care rather than on political differences and ideologies. These changes have an impact on the ways in which citizenship is defined and articulated. The classical ideals of an active polis citizenship (i.e. the ideas of dialogue, joint political action and political proce…
The rise of charismatic authority styles in corporate capitalism
The paper examines the rise of the anti‐hierarchical ‘flat’ and revolutionary styles of authority that emerged in late twentieth century corporate capitalism and suggests that the corporate world developed styles of authority simultaneously built on leaders’ personalised approach and revolutionary self‐actualisation and empowerment of employees. These styles are examined in the light of Max Weber’s idea of charismatic authority. The rise of chari…
From gardeners to revolutionaries: The rise of the liquid ethos in political journalism
In many newsrooms, journalistic work has increasingly been reorganized in ways that make it more flexible, multi-skilled and assertive, or even ‘liquid’. Empirical studies on liquid journalism, however, are scarce. This article examines how the rise of liquidity can be seen in the work-related ethos of Finnish political journalists. The article is based on 25 in-depth interviews of political journalists. In the findings, three generational groups…
The therapeutic imaginary in memory work: Mediating the Finnish Civil War in Tampere
The article analyses reconciliatory practices on war remembrance that draw from the imaginary of therapy. The decisive battles of the Finnish Civil War took place on the streets of Tampere in 1918. Only 90 years later, in 2008, was the city of Tampere able to organise a remembrance process, which mediated the war memory through exhibition, street drama, online discussion forums and mainstream media. The remembrance encouraged the disclosure of hi…
Branded revolutionaries: Circulated gurus as management tools in soft capitalism
The call for revolution has become a standard technique in corporate capitalism. Management fashions and gurus turn revolutionary ideas into saleable packages of corporate consulting. Here, the focus is on the case of Gary Hamel. I show how an individual guru becomes the central symbolic pole of the circulation of revolutionary ideas. Publishing companies, consultancies, universities and different media package and disseminate the revolutionary g…
Seize the Moment: Financial Crisis and the Making of the Finnish Competition State
In this paper we examine how Finnish Governments dismantled the Nordic welfare state paradigm from the 1990s onwards and adopted Schumpeterian ideas of a competitive workfare state. In the early 1990s, Finland went through a financial crisis that was the most severe in OECD countries since the Second World War and came to play a major role in the paradigm change. In the crisis, the Ministry of Finance gained a central role as a consensus-building…
Mediated scandals as social dramas: Transforming the moral order in Finland
In this article we apply Viktor Turner's ideas on liminality and social dramas to scandals involving the Finnish political and economic elites that have occurred since the early 1970s. We suggest that mediated scandals are transformative social dramas through which society's moral codes are negotiated. In Finland, scandals have increased considerably and have become more dangerous for Finnish elites because they have caused increasing numbers to …
Emotional styles of power: Corporate leaders in Finnish business media
Drawing from a growing body of research that focuses on emotions as social and cultural phenomena, this article examines how publicly performed emotions can be employed in the exercise of power. The article uses William Reddy’s ideas on emotional regimes. A qualitative analysis of Finnish business magazine Talouselämä tracks how corporate leaders have performed publicly in Finland from 1940 to 2005. I suggest that corporate capitalism developed a…
Mediatization of Power: Corporate CEOs in Flexible Capitalism
The present article analyses the mediatization of corporate power with a special focus on the work of the CEO. A review of the literature on the role of the media in corporate management, especially in the work of corporate leaders, shows how the techniques of power in corporate management have become mediatized. Different media have become increasingly important for the work of corporate leaders. More importantly, media have become tools of powe…
Liquid Journalism
A Stronghold of Routine Corporatism? The Involvement of Interest Groups in Policy Making in Finland
While the Nordic countries have a tradition of integrating privileged interest groups into policy making, a number of studies have argued that this Nordic ‘routine corporatism’ has changed over the last decades. Studies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden demonstrate that interest groups are less frequently involved in committees preparing policy, that lobbying of parliament has become more important and that the position of citizen groups has strength…
Affect in governmentality: Top executives managing the affective milieu of market liberalisation
This article explores the role of affect in governmentality and develops the concept of the ‘affective milieu’ to better understand liberal forms of managerial control in market environments. Taking Foucault’s writings on consent, security and technologies of self as a vantage point, we suggest that the regimes of governmentality are both rational and affective milieus and propose that the Spinozan–Deleuzian affect theory provides an entry point …
Wealth Elite Moralities: Wealthy Entrepreneurs' Moral Boundaries
This article examines the moral boundary work of wealthy Finnish entrepreneurs belonging to the country's top 0.1 per cent of earners. Through 28 semi-structured interviews, we show how these members of the wealth elite construct moral boundaries to legitimise their growing distance from other income groups in a Nordic welfare society. The super-rich entrepreneurs construct self-identities based on hard work, persistence and normality, draw moral…
Gloomy at the Top: How the Wealthiest 0.1% Feel about the Rest
Growing inequalities have prompted research on the wealthiest groups and their cohesive practices and ideologies. This article suggests that emotional expression - how the members of the wealthy upper class feel about themselves and the rest of society - provides a way to examine their position in society. Drawing from interviews with business executives who belong to the richest 0.1% in Finland and to their society's power elites, I argue that j…
Tackling the emotional toll together: How journalists address harassment with connective practices
In this article, we examine how journalists address and tackle online harassment by connective practices that involve joint action with peers and editors that we find are particularly effective in addressing the emotional effects of harassment. Theoretically, we bridge community of practice research with theories of emotional labour to develop a novel perspective to examine online harassment. Drawing on 22 interviews with Finnish journalists, we …
Sanattomien sopimusten puolustajat: Eduskunnan perustuslakivaliokunnan suhde mediajulkisuuteen
Kansanedustajista koostuvalla eduskunnan perustuslakivaliokunnalla on Suomessa monista muista maista poiketen merkittävää vastuuta lakien perustuslainmukaisuuden tulkinnassa. Tutkimme tässä artikkelissa, miten julkisuuden ja median paine tuntuu perustuslakivaliokunnan työssä, kun median merkitys yhteiskunnassa on kasvanut. Selvitämme valiokunnan jäsenten, virkamiesten ja valiokunnan kuulemien asiantuntijoiden haastatteluiden avulla, miten media…
Silence of the wealthy: How the wealthiest 0.1% avoid the media and resort to hidden strategies of advocacy
As the wealthiest groups have emerged as increasingly significant in societies, this article explores society's wealth elites from the vantage point of media and communication studies. Bridging the literature on policy advocacy and mediatisation, the article examines the hidden and public advocacy strategies of the wealthy. Drawing from 90 interviews with the wealthiest 0.1% in Finland, this study shows the wealthy's highly strategic stance towar…
With status decline in sight, voters turn radical right: How Do Experience and Expectation of Status Decline Shape Electoral Behaviour
We distinguish between the experience and expectation of subjective status decline in relation to electoral behaviour. Studies often link support for radical parties, especially radical right ones, to voters’ experience of status decline. A few other studies argue that voters’ expectation of status decline also triggers radical right support. Without precise measures of both perceptions, it has been difficult to distinguish which (or both) is mos…
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics
The last few decades have been marked by discourses that challenge many basic presumptions supporting liberal democracy. Populist parties in particular have raised criticism against democratic systems, and authoritarian programmes have made electoral gains. This article offers the elite's perspective on this phenomenon, which is often discussed in the context of lower income groups. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 90 Finnish top earners,…
When the Logics of Media, Law, and Politics Collide: The Mediatization of Finnish Constitutional Review
Mediatization scholarship has extensively analyzed how media logic affects societal institutions. Media logic is, however, not the only powerful institutional logic at play in modern societies. Other institutions have their respective logics that reciprocally impact processes of mediatization. In this article, we show how the logics of the media, law, and politics collide in constitutional review at the heart of democratic politics. Constitutiona…
Nordic authoritarianism: Child‐rearing values and political behavior in a multiparty context
This article explores how authoritarianism as a factor in child‐rearing values (CRV) is associated with political orientation, party support, and policy preferences among voters and societal elites in the Nordic context, which is characterized by social trust and solidarity, feelings of affinity, and a modest degree of ideological polarization. Based on a representative citizen survey conducted in 2018 (n = 4,076) and an elite survey conducted in…
Fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor and support for redistribution in the Nordic welfare state
The impact of individuals’ fairness predispositions on public support for the welfare state receives less attention than the effect of economic self-interest on this support. Amid growing income differences even in previously egalitarian Nordic countries, predispositions about what is fair in society are rapidly becoming more politically salient. We examine how fairness predispositions towards the rich and the poor are linked to the support for t…
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment
To contribute to studies on upper classes' self-justification, in this article, we aim to develop a perspective to explore how the increasingly wealthy upper classes seek to morally justify themselves in the realm of politics. Drawing on Norbert Elias's work, we suggest that amid the current economic and technological turbulence, the wealthy upper classes form dynamic wealth elite figurations that devise shared symbolics and programmes to coordin…
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