Populist Storytelling and Negative Affective Polarization
Social Media Evidence from Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3000406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodolfo Sarsfield (0000-0002-1935-0778, Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Zacarías Abuchanab (Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 102-131 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lap.2024.7 |
| OpenAlex | W4394621478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 59 |
The ideational definition of populism proposes that a narrative is populist if it is characterized by a Manichean cosmology that divides the political community between a "people," conceived as a homogeneously virtuous entity, and an "elite," conceived as a homogeneously corrupt entity. Departing from that conceptualization, this work first investigates the specific stories that Andrés Manuel López Obrador uses to spread his populist worldview, which we call "storytelling." We define the idea of storytelling as the art of telling a story where emotions, characters and other details are applied in order to promote a particular point of view or set of values. Second, we explore whether some of those stories produce greater negative affective polarization, here defined as the extent to which rival sociopolitical camps view each other as a disliked out-group. Findings suggest that some specific stories-in particular, what we call "stories of conspiracy" and "stories of ostracism"-indeed tend to induce more polarized attitudes among citizens
Art · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Social media · Storytelling · Chemistry · Media Influence and Politics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Introduction
Populism and social media
The Sociology of Storytelling
The Narrative Construction of Reality
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |