Video Recordings

A goal of the broader project is to generate a comprehensive theory of right-wing populism, encompassing top-down (supply) and bottom-up (demand) dimensions of economic, political, and cultural processes that generate the phenomenon. To study the bottom-up dimension of the cultural process, we have collected rich interview data in Czech and Polish, which we are now analyzing. Simultaneously, we are developing two methods: interpretive-structural coding and semantic network analysis. Our goal is to create not only a “mere” codebook but a robust ontology of categories that form “deeper” networks detectable in people’s thinking. Our abductive approach draws in equal measure on the extant theories of populism and empirical data.