"I Am a Tariff Man": The Power of Populist Foreign Policy Rhetoric under President Trump
"I Am a Tariff Man": The Power of Populist Foreign Policy Rhetoric under President Trump
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DOI：
10.1086/702229
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Thies, Cameron G.
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作者：
Boucher, Jean-Christophe;Thies, Cameron G.
本文通过研究特朗普总统主导和塑造公共贸易话语的能力，为民粹主义外交政策的新兴文献做出了贡献。我们开发了一种概念化的方法来民粹主义，重点是围绕民粹主义领导人的话语出现的社会网络。我们假设，民粹主义领导人将产生一个两极分化的社会网络沿着精英与人民的鸿沟，而不是通常的党派边界。众所周知，像特朗普这样的民粹主义领导人更喜欢直接、不经中介地接触人民，以传播他们的意识形态。因此，我们研究了特朗普在2018年3月宣布钢铁和铝关税时对Twitter的使用，以及它对Twitter上围绕贸易政策的辩论的突出性和内容的影响。我们的研究结果突出了特朗普及其支持者如何利用民粹主义外交政策主题在社交媒体上表达他们的政策立场。
This article contributes to the emerging literature on populist foreign policy by examining President Trump's ability to dominate and shape public discourse on trade. We develop an ideational approach to populism that focuses on the social network that emerges surrounding a populist leader's discourse. We hypothesize that populist leaders will generate a polarized social network along the elite-versus-people divide instead of the usual partisan boundary. Populist leaders like Trump are known to prefer direct, unmediated access to the people in order to spread their ideology. We therefore examine Trump's use of Twitter as he announced his steel and aluminum tariffs in March 2018 and its impact on the salience and content of debates around trade policy on the Twittersphere. Our findings highlight how Trump and his supporters use populist foreign policy themes to articulate their policy positions on social media.