Abstract The terminology of populism is often taken for granted, even though the very meaning of populism is quite unclear. The article approaches populism by exploring the meanings given to the term in the Nordic press during the first parliamentary elections of the 2010s in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. A combination of the quantitative content analysis and the qualitative frame analysis of the leading quality and popular papers is favoured. In the study of the use of populism in the British press the conclusion was that the term was used more or less explicitly in a pejorative way, although uses of the term varied and had no consistent logic. In the Nordic press recurring frames were found, but the meanings given to populism were only fully understood in their political and cultural contexts. The different life phases of the domestic populist parties as well as differences in Nordic political cultures especially explain the variation in the usage of the term.

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民粹主义建设

摘要尽管民粹主义的确切含义尚不清楚，但民粹主义的术语常常被认为是理所当然的。本文通过探讨在芬兰，瑞典，挪威和丹麦举行的2010年代首届议会选举中北欧新闻界对该术语的含义来探讨民粹主义。倾向于将领先的质量论文和流行论文的定量内容分析和定性框架分析相结合。在英国媒体对民粹主义使用的研究中，得出的结论是，该术语或多或少地以贬义的方式使用，尽管该术语的使用多种多样且没有一致的逻辑。在北欧新闻界中发现了重复出现的框架，但是赋予民粹主义的含义只有在其政治和文化背景下才能被完全理解。