Brexit: A Case Study of Populist and Personalized Politics

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dc.contributor.advisor Numan, Berna (Supervisor)
dc.contributor.author Köylüoğlu, Halil Hürkan
dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-15T14:22:25Z
dc.date.available 2024-02-15T14:22:25Z
dc.date.issued 2022-02
dc.date.submitted 2022
dc.identifier.citation Köylüoğlu, Halil Hürkan. (2022). Brexit: A Case Study of Populist and Personalized Politics. Thesis (M.A.), Eastern Mediterranean University, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Dept. of International Relations, Famagusta: North Cyprus. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11129/5795
dc.description Master of Arts in International Relations. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research. Thesis (M.A.) - Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, 2022. Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Berna Numan. en_US
dc.description.abstract Populism is a concept that has been discussed a lot in the literature, both theoretically and ideologically. While attention to populism increased, the term continued to be contested. Using a qualitative content analysis method, this thesis looks at the Brexit referendum period in the UK to understand the nature and extent of populist discourses. The study covers the period of 1st of January 2014 to 31st of July 2016 and uses newspaper content from Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and The Times. The most recent populist trend that developed in Europe and the world started to strongly affect the United Kingdom with the Brexit referendum. In the 1980s, the fact that some political groups and actors in Britain began to take a negative attitude towards Europe with Euroscepticism directly impacted the referendum process, along with the populism movements in Europe and America during the referendum process. Most importantly, the Brexit referendum process illustrated that populism was coupled with another political trend: the personalization of politics. The prominence of individual political actors and the fact that populist discourse led by particular individuals such as Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson showed the emergence of this shift in cleavage structures in the UK besides the effects of populism. The study demonstrates that there is a significant level of personalisation of politics during the Brexit referendum. Keywords: Euroscepticism, populism, personalisation of politics, Brexit referendum, United Kingdom en_US
dc.description.abstract ÖZ: Popülizm, literatürde hem teorik hem de ideolojik olarak çokça tartışılan bir terimdir. Birçok bilim insanı popülizmi tanımlarken her zaman kavramı konjonktürel ele alarak bir sonuca varmaya çalışmıştır. Avrupa'da ve dünyada gelişen popülizm akımı, Brexit referandumu ile Birleşik Krallık'ta da güçlü bir şekilde etkisini göstermeye başladı. 1980'lerde İngiltere'deki bazı siyasi grup ve aktörlerin Avrupa şüpheciliği ile Avrupa'ya karşı olumsuz bir tavır almaya başlaması, referandum sürecinde Avrupa ve Amerika'daki popülizm hareketleriyle birlikte referandum sürecini doğrudan etkilemiştir. Ancak Brexit referandumu sürecinde siyasi gruplardan farklı olarak siyasi aktörlerin öne çıkması ve popülizmin bireyler tarafından yapılması İngiltere için popülizmin yanında farklı bir konunun ortaya çıkmasına neden oldu: siyasetin kişiselleştirilmesi. Bu çalışmanın sonucunda da Brexit referandumu sırasında ciddi seviyede siyasetin kişiselleştirilmesi ile ilgili bulgular saptanmıştır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Avrupa şüpheciliği, popülizm, siyasetin kişiselleştirilmesi, Brexit referandumu, Birleşik Krallık en_US
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.publisher Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ) en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.subject International Relations en_US
dc.subject European Union--Great Britain--Membership en_US
dc.subject Great Britain--Foreign relations--European Union countries en_US
dc.subject Great Britain--Politics and government en_US
dc.subject Europe--Politics and government en_US
dc.subject Euroscepticism en_US
dc.subject populism en_US
dc.subject personalisation of politics en_US
dc.subject Brexit referendum en_US
dc.subject United Kingdom en_US
dc.title Brexit: A Case Study of Populist and Personalized Politics en_US
dc.type masterThesis en_US
dc.contributor.department Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Political Science and International Relations en_US


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