Populism as an Expression of Political Communication Content and Style: A New Perspective

Abstract

In this article, the introduction to a special <i>International Journal of Press/Politics</i> (<i>IJPP</i>) issue on populism, we articulate and define populism as a <i>communication phenomenon.</i> We provide an overview of populist political communication research and its current foci. We offer a framework for ongoing research and set the boundary conditions for a new generation of research on populist political communication, with an aim to push the research agendas and design toward a more interactive, systematic, and in particular, <i>comparative</i> approach to the study of populist political communication.