‘Warming up’ to populist leaders: A comparative analysis of Argentina and Spain

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI:10.5964/jspp.10107

E. Carty, Mariano Torcal

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Abstract

What makes populist leaders, responsible for many episodes of democratic backsliding, especially appealing to a significant part of the electorate? In the following pages we argue that the effect of perceptions regarding leaders’ ‘warmth’ causes them to be perceived as having good intentions toward and even being part of ‘the people,’ resulting in a more positive overall evaluation among citizens with more critical views of democratic representativeness (external political efficacy). We test this hypothesis in two very different political systems, Argentina and Spain, using data from original surveys that contain batteries of questions on warmth and competence trait dimensions for multiple leaders in both countries. The results show that while perceptions of traits along both warmth and competence dimensions are important for the evaluation of all leaders in democratic systems, the interactive effect between external political efficacy and perceptions of warmth is important for explaining more positive evaluations of populist leaders.

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向民粹主义领导人 "取暖"：阿根廷和西班牙的比较分析

民粹主义领导人是许多民主倒退事件的罪魁祸首，是什么让他们对相当一部分选民特别有吸引力？在下文中，我们将论证，对领导人 "热情 "的看法会使他们被认为对 "人民 "怀有善意，甚至是 "人民 "的一部分，从而使那些对民主代表性（外部政治效能）持批评态度的公民对领导人的总体评价更为积极。我们在阿根廷和西班牙这两个截然不同的政治体制中，利用原始调查的数据对这两个国家的多位领导人进行了测试，这些数据包含了有关热情和能力特质维度的问题。结果表明，虽然对温情和能力两个维度的特质认知对民主制度中所有领导人的评价都很重要，但外部政治效能感和温情认知之间的互动效应对解释对民粹主义领导人更积极的评价很重要。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

4.80%

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审稿时长

40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.