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Inside out: The UK press, Brexit and strategic populist ventriloquism
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posted on 2020-05-28, 08:31 authored by David Smith, David DeaconDavid Deacon, John DowneyJohn DowneyThis article examines how and when populist discourses were mobilised within the
2016 UK EU Referendum campaign, by examining the specific temporal
conjunctions between the changing strategy of the official ‘Vote Leave’ campaign,
British National newspaper reporting of the Referendum and shifts in public opinion.
Our analysis shows that Vote Leave only started to utilise anti-elitist and
exclusionary populist rhetoric at the mid-point of the campaign, in response to
constricting political opportunities, but by so doing transformed the dynamic of the
Referendum. We term this an example of ‘strategic populist ventriloquism’, where
elite politicians appropriate the language of insurgency for political advantage and
argue that current conceptual frameworks on media and populism need to be
broadened to accommodate these occasions.
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- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- Communication and Media
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European Journal of CommunicationVolume
36Issue
1Pages
21-37Publisher
SAGE PublicationsVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Sage under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2020-05-27Publication date
2020-08-24Copyright date
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0267-3231eISSN
1460-3705Publisher version
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- en
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Prof David Deacon Deposit date: 27 May 2020Usage metrics
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