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<p>This article examines whether populism is depicted as a threat by news media in Dutch-speaking Belgium, French-speaking Belgium, France and Spain. It studies how “populism(s)” and “populist(s)” (hereafter populis*) are used in 2019 news media content. In relation to scholarship focusing on media uses of populis*, the paper argues that the examined news media content does not systematically depict populism or populists as a threat. While the media sometimes exhibit anti-populist stances—whether adversarial or accommodative/banal—the term populis* is often employed in media content in a non-critical and purely descriptive manner. It typically alludes to an elusive phenomenon without providing any subjective indication of whether it signifies something detrimental towards politics or democracy.</p>

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Is populism really represented as a threat? An analysis of media discourse on populism in Belgium, France and Spain

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    2025年6月27日

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  • Jessy Bailly,
  • Nadezda Shchinova,
  • Raül Nuevo Gascó,
  • Sandrine Roginsky,
  • Min Reuchamps

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This article examines whether populism is depicted as a threat by news media in Dutch-speaking Belgium, French-speaking Belgium, France and Spain. It studies how “populism(s)” and “populist(s)” (hereafter populis*) are used in 2019 news media content. In relation to scholarship focusing on media uses of populis*, the paper argues that the examined news media content does not systematically depict populism or populists as a threat. While the media sometimes exhibit anti-populist stances—whether adversarial or accommodative/banal—the term populis* is often employed in media content in a non-critical and purely descriptive manner. It typically alludes to an elusive phenomenon without providing any subjective indication of whether it signifies something detrimental towards politics or democracy.