The monograph “Populist orientations in Ukrainian society” is available in open access

The global trend of widespread support for populism in many societies is associated with the ideological amorphousness of contemporary political life and with a crisis of identity caused by the processes of informatisation and the conflict of cultural stereotypes. On the basis of a synthesis of contemporary theories and an analysis of the data of many empirical studies, the authors examine the phenomenon of populist orientations in Ukraine through the prism of its origins in a post-communist society. The authors identify the reasons why the long-standing prevalence of populist attitudes over the course of social transformations was able to translate into mass electoral behaviour only in 2019. Using an adapted measurement instrument, they study the features and the formative factors of populist orientations under conditions of full-scale war and restricted political life.

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