Public trust and the populist leader: A theoretical argument
dc.contributor.author | Vitale, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Girard, R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-31T14:27:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-09-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-31T12:20:17Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This article adds nuance to current understandings of the relationship between the populist leader and the public by using the concept of trust. Merging the literature on populism with the growing scholarship on trust from philosophy, psychology and other social sciences, it argues that following on from the populist leader’s appeals to similarity, the populist-public relationship involves an intertwining of two forms of public trust: the public’s trust in the populist and the public’s trust in itself (what we call ‘public self-trust’). Contrary to what political and constitutional theorists have recognized as a tension between public self-trust and the public’s trust in its political representatives, we contend based on the scholarship on trust that in the populist-public relationship these two forms of trust can be mutually reinforcing. And this mutual reinforcement, we suggest, has the potential to create a positive feedback loop of public trust which, given the value of public trust to political leaders, empowers the populist. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 16 September 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129227 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1658-5950 (Girard, Raphael) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Populism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Trust | en_GB |
dc.subject | Similarity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Public Law | en_GB |
dc.subject | Authenticity | en_GB |
dc.title | Public trust and the populist leader: A theoretical argument | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-31T14:27:15Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-3825 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Global Constitutionalism | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-03-27 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-03-27 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-03-31T12:20:37Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-10-14T12:47:40Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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