The personality of populists
Provocateurs, Charismatic Leaders, or Drunken Dinner Guests
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6407535 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Alessandro Nai (0000-0001-7303-2693, University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente), Ferran Martínez I Coma (0000-0002-3486-6596, Griffith University) |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Fascículo | 7 |
| Páginas | 1337-1367 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2019.1599570 |
| OpenAlex | W2942952529 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 60 |
| Referências citadas | 127 |
The ‘populist phenomenon’ has received a lot of attention in recent years. Yet little is known about the populists themselves: who are they? They are often described as bad-mannered provocateurs disrupting the political game, but also as charismatic leaders able to persuade and motivate. Can a populist ‘style’ or ‘personality’ be identified? This article assesses to what extent populists score differently from ‘mainstream’ politicians on established personality inventories. Using a new dataset based on expert ratings for 152 candidates (including 33 populists) having competed in 73 elections worldwide, it is found that populists score lower on agreeableness, emotional stability and conscientiousness. At the same time, populists score higher on extraversion, narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. These results have important implications for the study of the success of populists in contemporary democracies and beyond
Agreeableness · Big Five personality traits · Charisma · Conscientiousness · Extraversion and introversion · Machiavellianism · Mainstream · Personality · Political science · Psychopathy · Media Influence and Politics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Populist Careers as Autonomy-Making
Uncivil yet persuasive? Testing the persuasiveness of political incivility and the moderating role of populist attitudes and personality traits
That’s Not Appropriate!‘ Examining Social Norms as Predictors of Negative Campaigning
Mapping the drivers of negative campaigning
The Personality Traits of Populist Leaders and Their Foreign Policies
The Covid-19 Pandemic, International Cooperation, and Populism
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Is Negative Campaigning a Matter of Taste? Political Attacks, Incivility, and the Moderating Role of Individual Differences
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The Anti-Social Triad of Grievance Politics
Polarized Populists
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Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
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The Global Rise of Populism
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American Nightmare
Platform or Personality?
Testing the latent factor structure and construct validity of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory
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The dirty dozen
Introducing the Short Dark Triad (SD3)
Personality and Transformational and Transactional Leadership
The Dark Triad of Personality
The Impact of Candidate Traits in American Presidential Elections
Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism in the Five-Factor Model and the Hexaco model of personality structure
The Double-Edged Sword of Grandiose Narcissism
The Structure of Conscientiousness
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Strong presidents and weak institutions
The Far Right and the European Elections
Politics on the Edges of Liberalism
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Unprovoked Aggression
The personalities of Danish MPs
Polarización y demonización en la campaña presidencial de Colombia de 2018
Who is populist in Central and Eastern Europe? Comparative analysis of prime ministers' populist disclosure
Disagreeable narcissists, extroverted psychopaths, and elections
Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism
Personalist Parties in the Third Wave of Democratization
Fear and Loathing in Populist Campaigns? Comparing the Communication Style of Populists and Non-populists in Elections Worldwide
Welcome to the carnival? Podemos , populism and Bakhtin’s carnivalesque
Populism and the Construction of Political Charisma
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Aleksei Naval’nyi and Populist Re-ordering of Putin’s Stability
The Regional Foreign Policies of Black Sea “New Populist” Leaders
Continuity and change in Pakistani politics 1
Linking the Big Five‐Factors of personality to charismatic and transactional leadership; perceived dynamic work environment as a moderator
Donald Trump, Populism, and the Age of Extremes
Populist rhetoric in politics and media
A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains
The Dark Triad of personality
Putinism, Populism and the Defence of Liberal Democracy
Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency
Personality traits of municipal politicians and staff
Nice guys finish last
Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media
Nationalism vs. Nationalism
Personalizing Politics
The AfD
The Italian election of 2018 and the first populist government of Western Europe
The homogeneity of West European party families
A populist Zeitgeist ? Programmatic contagion by populist parties in Western Europe
The voter says no, but nobody listens
Personality and Legislative Politics
Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership
Success in opposition – failure in government
Pariahs in their midst
The Lega Nord Back in Government
Measuring Populism
Populist Radical Right Parties in the Nordic Region
A Weekend in Padania
Populist Leaders and Coterie Charisma
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession
Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy
Measuring Elite Personality Using Speech
Current Concepts of the Narcissistic Personality
Thin‐Slice Decisions Do Not Need Faces to be Predictive of Election Outcomes
Why Tyrants Go Too Far
Personality Profiles and Political Parties
Personality Foundations of Ideological Divide
What I Like About You
Fighting the system? Populist radical right parties and party system change
Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics
The Five Star Movement
Scandinavia
Populism and political development in hybrid regimes
The thin ideology of populism
The AfD and its Sympathisers
Can experts judge elections? Testing the validity of expert judgments for measuring election integrity
The psychological roots of populist voting
Evaluating expert judgments
The People Must Be Extracted from Within the People
Clarifying a Contested Concept
Effective” Number of Parties
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena
Varieties of Populism across a Left‐Right Spectrum
Personalities of politicians and voters
"An alternative "description of personality
The Trump Draw
Preaching to the Choir?’ An Analysis of DUP Discourses about the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Populism as political communication style
Rethinking Populism
Social media populism
The Populist Zeitgeist
Bolsonaro and Brazil's Illiberal Backlash
Rise of the Trumpenvolk
Populisme
Populist radical right parties mobilizing 'the people'? The role of populist radical right success in voter turnout
Economics, politics, and foreigners
| Obras citantes distintas | 60 |
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| Citações por ano | 8,57 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 58 |