“Do as I say but not as I do”: Influence of political leaders’ populist communication styles on public adherence in a crisis using the global case of COVID-19 movement restrictions

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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Liboen
dc.contributor.authorMirkovski, Kristijanen
dc.contributor.authorLowry, Paul Benjaminen
dc.contributor.authorVu, Quanen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-11T18:47:43Zen
dc.date.available2023-04-11T18:47:43Zen
dc.date.issued2023en
dc.date.updated2023-04-11T18:28:59Zen
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the influence of political leaders’ populist communication styles on public adherence to government policies regarding COVID-19 containment. We adopt a mixed-methods approach that combines: theory building with a nested multicase study design for Study 1 and an empirical study in a natural setting for Study 2. Based on the results from Studies 1 and 2, we develop two propositions that we further explain theoretically: (P1) countries with political leaders associated with engaging or intimate populist communication styles (i.e., the UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Ireland) exhibit better public adherence to their governments’ COVID-19 movement restrictions than do countries with political leaders associated with communication styles that combine the champion of the people and engaging styles (i.e., the US); (P2) the country whose political leader is associated with a combination of engaging and intimate populist communication styles (i.e., Singapore) exhibits better public adherence to the government’s COVID-19 movement restrictions than do countries whose political leaders adopted solely engaging or solely intimate styles, namely, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland. This paper contributes to the research on political leadership in crises and populist political communication.en
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dc.identifier.orcidLowry, Paul [0000-0002-0187-5808]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/114475en
dc.identifier.volume2023en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPopulist communicationen
dc.subjectPolitical communicationen
dc.subjectPolitical leadershipen
dc.subjectSocial mediaen
dc.subjectCrisis managementen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.title“Do as I say but not as I do”: Influence of political leaders’ populist communication styles on public adherence in a crisis using the global case of COVID-19 movement restrictionsen
dc.title.serialData and Information Managementen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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dcterms.dateAccepted2023-04-07en
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