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“The Enemy of the People”: Populists and Press Freedom

Kenny, Paul D.·2020·Political Research Quarterly
DOI 10.1177/1065912918824038
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To what extent is populist rule associated with a decline in press freedom and freedom of expression? Populist rule refers to government headed by charismatic leaders who seek to gain and retain power by mobilizing mass constituencies that are typically free of other political attachments. Populism in this sense matters for two reasons: (1) controlling the media is a core objective of populists compared with other types of political leaders, who can rely on other organizational links to supporters; and (2) the interests of populist parties are virtually equivalent to the interests of party leaders, which means that populists face different time horizons and constraints on their behavior than the leaders of more deeply institutionalized parties. Using cross-national data on up to ninety-one countries from 1980 to 2014, this paper tests whether populist rule is associated with the erosion of press freedom and freedom of expression relative to other types of government and whether any effect is conditional on the ideology of the populist government in question. It finds that populist rule is associated with a decline in most measures of media freedom relative to programmatic party rule. However, this effect is lessened for right-leaning populist governments.

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  1. Kenny Paul D., 2017, Populism and Patronage: Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and beyond
  2. Kenny Paul D., 2018, Paper presented at the World Congress of the International Political Science Association
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Authors
Kenny, P. D.
Affiliations
Australian National University (AU)
Corresponding author
Kenny, Paul D.
ORCID
Kenny, Paul D.
Venue
Political Research Quarterly
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2019-01-25
Volume
73
Issue
2
Pages
261-275
ISSN
  • 1065-9129 (ISSN-L)
  • 1938-274X
DOI
10.1177/1065912918824038
OpenAlex
W2914675577
Cited by
98
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 13 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2
FWCI
19.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Political Research Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • Research Bank (Australian Catholic University) (submittedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Australian National University
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Social Sciences › Law › Law, Rights, and Freedoms
Keywords
populism, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, populist governments, right-wing populism, left-wing populism, government ideology, media control

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