ABSTRACT This article analyses political cartoons that depict contemporary populist politicians in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden between 2005 and 2015, a period which focuses on the electoral successes of these movements. The hypothesis is that by analyzing cartoons we can explore the underlying moral and normative confrontations linked to current political populism in the Nordic liberal democracies, which arose during the insurgent phase of the domestic right-wing parties. In total, 60 political cartoons are analyzed by means of content categorization and visual semiotics. The most popular caricatures in the cartoons depicted the leaders of the populist parties, while the most common signifiers linked the populism in the cartoons explicitly to fascism, Nazism, nativism, and racism. In this, the cartoons differed from news journalism, reflecting the specific role of cartoons in public opinion discourse and indicating special characteristics that derive from particular political contexts and also the cartoonists’ own perspectives.

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政治漫画中的民粹主义：北欧民粹主义领导人的漫画

摘要 本文分析了描绘 2005 年至 2015 年期间丹麦、芬兰和瑞典当代民粹主义政治家的政治漫画，这一时期的重点是这些运动的选举成功。假设是，通过分析漫画，我们可以探索与北欧自由民主国家当前政治民粹主义相关的潜在道德和规范对抗，这些对抗发生在国内右翼政党的叛乱阶段。通过内容分类和视觉符号学，共分析了60部政治漫画。漫画中最受欢迎的漫画描绘了民粹主义政党的领导人，而最常见的符号则将漫画中的民粹主义明确地与法西斯主义、纳粹主义、本土主义和种族主义联系起来。在这一点上，漫画不同于新闻报道，