CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Zeravica, Luka |
|---|---|
| Title | It's Logic and Heuristics! A Critique of Populist Ideology and Rhetoric |
| Summary | The topic of populism seems to be popular lately. This MA thesis is a meta-analysis of populist ideology and rhetoric, and proposes logic and heuristics as means for research phenomena populism is about. It is divided into three sections. The first section is about the critique of populist literature regarding its normative framework, i.e., populist ideology. Populist ideology attributes (dualist antagonistic division of society, anti-establishment attitudes, and general will) and instances of populism (Narodnik movement, Chavez, and Trump) are analyzed and criticized. The second section is about populist discord and its scoping method (semantic text analysis). At the beginning of the section, methodological pluralism will be discussed. Dictionary-based computerized content analysis, holistic grading, and clause-based semantic text analysis will be presented as examples of semantic text analysis. Roel’s analysis of Viktor Orban’s speech will be criticized due to interpretative bias at the end of the section. The third section is about logic and heuristics. It starts with basic information about political manipulation and an example of human reasoning research (Wason’s Selection Task). There will be general information about the logic and heuristic. Also, a brief, logical analysis of 2020. the presidential debate between Trump and Sanders will be demonstrated. Regarding heuristics, it will be presented how it can be used within political science (e.g., voting behavior) by appealing to some research that relied on a heuristic. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics,Tamás |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/zeravica_luka.pdf |
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