CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Hegde, Medini Dinesh |
|---|---|
| Title | Revisiting Populism in the UK: The 'Leave Means Leave' Movement |
| Summary | This paper looks into the different subtypes of populism with a focus on the case study of the ‘Leave Means Leave’ movement in the UK. Populism has been on the rise in recent decades and since it is often treated as a thin centred ideology, there is a lot of literature on the different types of populism, each claiming to understand the political phenomenon better than the other. This paper takes explains broad categories of populism – ideology, discourse and political strategy, however, uses a combination of ideology and political strategy to explain ‘how’ the people as conceived by the populist actors have been mobilised against the elite in the UK. ‘Leave Means Leave’ is lobby group that claims to voice the will of the people towards a clean Brexit. They have used unconventional lobbying techniques in order to gain the attention of the elite. However, this voice has been unheard by the establishment and the objectives of the lobby group have been unfulfilled. Thus, this brings an important facet to the fore, that are the populist leaders of the ‘Leave Means Leave’ movement really interested in the delivering to the people their will, or do they mobilise the people only towards their own political gains. This paper explores how the lack of ideology has been replaced effectively by rhetoric towards mobilising people by the populist leaders of the ‘Leave Means Leave’ movement. |
| Supervisor | Fetzer, Thomas |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/hegde_medini-dinesh.pdf |
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