Brexit: A Case Study of Populist and Personalized Politics

dc.contributor.advisorNuman, Berna (Supervisor)
dc.contributor.authorKöylüoğlu, Halil Hürkan
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-15T14:22:25Z
dc.date.available2024-02-15T14:22:25Z
dc.date.issued2022-02
dc.date.submitted2022
dc.departmentEastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Political Science and International Relationsen_US
dc.descriptionMaster 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.abstractPopulism 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 Kingdomen_US
dc.description.abstractÖZ: 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 Krallıken_US
dc.identifier.citationKöylüoğlu, 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.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11129/5795
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ)en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryTez
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectInternational Relationsen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Union--Great Britain--Membershipen_US
dc.subjectGreat Britain--Foreign relations--European Union countriesen_US
dc.subjectGreat Britain--Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subjectEurope--Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subjectEuroscepticismen_US
dc.subjectpopulismen_US
dc.subjectpersonalisation of politicsen_US
dc.subjectBrexit referendumen_US
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen_US
dc.titleBrexit: A Case Study of Populist and Personalized Politicsen_US
dc.typeMaster Thesis

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