Reactions to populism: institutions

Report on reactions to populism news media legal rections and schoolsTask 73 Journalists responses and scenariosBesides citizens a second key actor for a correct functioning of democracy is journalism and news media system Populism presents particular challenges to journalism It is assumed that news media journalism has been challenged by the distrust of populists politicians refined media management and regulation and other antiintellectual attitudesmeasures There is a pressing need to maintain professional and ethical values while the media struggles with the rise of populism all over the Europe The aim of the task is to comprehend and assess how news media journalists perceive and react to populism in politics In particular the task is to assess whether populism in action has any influence on journalistic norms professional values and editorial practises Other way around also the media responses are investigated as a part of the media opportunity structure for populist parties policies and leaders It is to map out the different models of media quarantine cooptation or collaboration with populist forces The task reveals the journalistic perspective on populisms by addressing the question whether there is an interplay between the populist Zeitgeist and changing ethicalprofessional practises Researchers firstly will conduct semistructured interviews on a small sample of journalists in order to understand the impact of populism on their job These results will allow the researchers to construct a convincing online survey for investigating a bigger representative samples of news media journalists in order to individuate clusters of journalistic role perceptions from the perspective of populism Scenarios will be drafted on the interactions of populism and the mediaLead UNITO contributors AMU UL UB SKAMBA CUNITask 74 Political reactions and scenariosRelying on the work done under task 63 the aim of the task is to comprehend and assess how mainstream political leadersparties perceive and react to populism in politics Both the ideological and the communicative dimensions of this phenomenon will be taken into account Consequently the task is to assess how traditional parties react to populism modifying their communication strategies for example by adopting part of the populist rhetorical devices used by populist actors or by sharply criticising populist formations and their messages Moreover also the strategies adopted by traditional parties in order to deal with populist parties in the National and European legislative arenas will be investigatedBased on the empirical material gathered scenarios about possible prospects will be elaborated on probable political reactions to populismMethod Semistructured interviews on the leaders of the European and National mainstream parties and on their PartyChair in the European and National Parliaments Content analysis of party programmes 2019 European Elections and last national General ElectionsLead ELIAMEP contributions CUNI SKAMBA UL AMU UBTask 75 Legal reactions and scenariosBuilding on task 61 this task will classify legal institutions and solutions as either reinforcing or taming anticonstitutionalist moves or else remain neutral building on a broad take on questions like electoral systems campaign regulation and referendum policies on fake news integration policies etc Possible scenarios on the prospects of the European project in this perspective will be elaboratedThe research will address the puzzle in enlargement conditionality literature on how can institutionallegal reforms become sustainable guarantees that are hard to be reverted once conditionality pressure fades Our goal is to formulate policy recommendations based on best practices and innovative proposals for how to best counter anticonstitutionalist tendencies Lead UCPH contributions UB PEM CCS HASTask 76 SchoolsInterv