Hilmar Mjelde and Jan Fredrik Hovden, both members of the SCANPUB team, recently published the article “Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016“, in International Journal of Communication.
The article is open access and available at the journal’s website. If you want to read more articles from SCANPUB’s team members, the list of publications is updated.
Abstract from Mjelde and Hovdens article:
“This article measures and discusses populism in Scandinavian immigration debate from 1970 to 2016. Using descriptive statistical analysis and logistical regression analysis, we analyze items related to immigration in six newspapers from the three countries over four constructed weeks for each of the 47 years under study, in total 4,329 coded newspaper articles. We find that populism spikes when immigration spikes due to international developments/crises. References to “the people,” anti-elitism, exclusionist rhetoric, but also alarmist rhetoric about a state of emergency, are the most frequently appearing attributes. Second, country, newspaper genre, and party type of quoted politicians are clearly correlated with populism. Populism is much more likely to be found in Denmark, opinion genres, paticularly letters to the editor, when populist radical-right parties are either speaking or spoken about in the press, and in articles with threat frames”.
Hilmar Mjelde, one of the authors of “Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016”
Jan Fredrik Hovden, one of the authors of “Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016”