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Use of the term populism in British broadsheets
Vondrášková, Veronika ; Pekáček, Ondřej (advisor) ; Klásková, Markéta (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to explore the use of the terms "populism" and "populist" in UK daily broadsheets. a change in the use of this term depending on a previous study conducted in the United Kingdom more than a decade ago by T. Bale, S. van Kessel and P. Taggart. In addition to comparing previously identified results, there is an attempt to reveal differences in the use of the term between diaries through their ideological preference. The articles published by The Independent, The Guardian, The Times, and The Telegraph in one and a half months at the beginning of 2019 are analysed. The results of the content analysis of systematically selected articles reveal results that do not differ in many cases from previous study. Difference is found in the situation who (ie person, event, institution) is most often referred to as "populist", the fact that the term "populist" " is still used up to be used up to three times more often than "populism". The difference is also found in the use of terms in the political genre, where the terms are now used more often as a mere adjective without a deeper description than it was before. Regarding the differences between the broadsheets according to their political preferences, differences are found that daily newspapers leaning to the right use the terms in...
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