Tea Party imitators? The campaign against the carbon tax, the media and a new uncivil politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6234876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Ward (0000-0002-0566-1479), I M Ward (0000-0001-8398-4911, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-240 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10361146.2015.1005571 |
| OpenAlex | W2017682713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Gillard government's decision to reverse an election promise to not introduce a carbon tax prompted protest rallies around Australia during 2011–12. Beneath the hyperbole of critics who dismissed these protests as imitating US Tea Party extremism lies an intriguing possibility: that these are each examples of a new form of right-wing political expression enabled by structural changes in the media. This article considers the nature of the anti-carbon tax 'people's revolt' and its resemblance to the Tea Party. Both are a hybrid mix of top-down control and bottom-up grassroots populism whose emergence 'outrage media' facilitated. In a manner that echoes the support Fox News gave Tea Partiers, talkback radio in Sydney appears to have played a particular role shaping the identity, agenda and uncivil tone of the campaign against the carbon tax
Grassroots · Hyperbole · Media studies · Metaphor · Outrage · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Tea party · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |