APA
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Jumle, V., Plagemann, J., Destradi, S., Dressler, E., Santiago, A., & Schleehauf, R. (2025). Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making. In D. Cadier, A. Chryssogelos, & S. Destradi (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414797-16
Chicago/Turabian
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Jumle, Vihang, Johannes Plagemann, Sandra Destradi, Elena Dressler, Alyssa Santiago, and Ronald Schleehauf. “Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making.” In Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy, edited by D. Cadier, A. Chryssogelos, and S. Destradi. Routledge, 2025.
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Jumle, Vihang, et al. “Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making.” Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy, edited by D. Cadier et al., Routledge, 2025, doi:10.4324/9781003414797-16.
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@inbook{jumle2025a,
title = {Populism and the Centralisation of Foreign Policy Decision-Making},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Routledge},
doi = {10.4324/9781003414797-16},
author = {Jumle, Vihang and Plagemann, Johannes and Destradi, Sandra and Dressler, Elena and Santiago, Alyssa and Schleehauf, Ronald},
editor = {Cadier, D. and Chryssogelos, A. and Destradi, S.},
booktitle = {Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy}
}
Populist leaders often claim to embody the popular will and speak in the name of the ‘true people'. This has a number of consequences for the processes of foreign policy making. In particular, we can expect populist governments to marginalise ‘elitist' diplomats and to centralise decision making around the populist leader. This is often accompanied by a high degree of personalisation of foreign policy making. While some of these trends are not unique to populism, we argue that they are particularly pronounced in populist governments. We support this claim with evidence from four countries in which populist governments came to power succeeding non-populist ones: India, the Philippines, Italy, and Bolivia. These cases account for a high variation in dimensions like ‘thick ideologies', duration in power, political systems, and geopolitical contexts. In all cases, populist governments centralised and personalised foreign policy decision-making. Our analysis concludes by outlining various patterns of centralisation.