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    Atitudini și discursuri populiste în România. Dinamici în 2019-2021 și posibile explicații ale impactului AUR = Populist attitudens and discourse în Romania. Evolutions in 2019-2021 & possibile explanations of the impact of the AUR party
    (Polis Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2021) Sultănescu, Dan; Teodorescu, Bogdan; Sultănescu, Daniela
    Evaluating the populist phenomenon in a country like Romania is a complex research objective and requires an important distinction between two dimensions – effectively measuring the public’s populist predispositions, regardless of party affinities, and evaluating the ideological discourse of the main parties as well as the relationship between these ideological approaches and the populist attitudes in society. In this study, we evaluated the current state of the populist inclinations of the voting-age population in Romania, and also the ideological mechanisms that have recently stimulated these populist attitudes. We analyzed whether we can observe a rise in populist attitudes in Romania in recent years, especially in the context of the emergence of a new political force with populist and ultra-nationalist discourse. We also evaluate the evolution of this type of ideologic discourse during the last year, as well as its relation to earlier populist political discourses in Romania. We operate on the premise that parties can have populist approaches independently from the ideology they support, and also that understanding the relation between (political) discourse and populist orientation (of the public) is relevant.
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    Mişcarea Legionară, între istorie și percepții actuale. Amestec de fascism și atitudini populiste
    (2022) Teodorescu, Bogdan; Sultănescu, Dan
    The Legionary Movement (called also the Iron Guard) was a special political phenomenon, which appeared in a special socio-economic and geopolitical context, in interwar Romania. As some of the elements of this context seem to repeat today (the reappearance of regional conflicts, the fear of world wars, multiple economic and social crises, the rise of anti-system populist attitudes and anti-Semitism in social media, multiple feelings of frustration for large social categories), the analysis the phenomenon of the Legionnaire Movement is more actual than ever. And the way in which this political message is perceived, not only in historiography, but also among the voting population nowadays, is becoming more and more relevant. This analysis combines a historical approach, to explain the phenomenon of the Legionary Movement from the interwar period, with a sociological one, to evaluate today’s public perceptions towards this phenomenon, one that is part of the family of Eastern European fascisms, but also of a form of anti-system approach, stimulating populist attitudes, as they are defined today.