Populist Rhetorics Case Studies and a Minimalist Definition

Christian Kock
is Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published in
Philosophy and Rhetoric, Argumentation, Political Communication, Rhetorica, Rhetorica Scandinavica, Paradigmi, Informal Logic, Controversia
and many other journals and has authored and edited several books in Danish and English on political rhetoric, argumentation, and public debate, most recently his
Deliberative Rhetoric: Arguing about Doing
(2017).

Lisa Villadsen
is Professor and Head of the Section of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has published in
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Javnost, Rhetorica Scandinavica
, and other journals on official apologies, political rhetoric, dissent, and populism, most recently “Low Style the High Way: Rhetorical Mainstreaming of Populism” in the edited volume
Vox Populi: Populism as a Rhetorical and Democratic Challenge
(2020).