s The growth and success of right-wing populist movements globally has been remarkable since the early 2010s. Indeed, populist parties in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North America have received tremendous electoral success, shaping a movement for the people and by the people within the political sphere. To what extent do populist movements influence other such programs across national borders? Research has suggested that globalization has facilitated the spread of populist ideology. Transnational populism emphasizes the “people” as a “horizontal, membership-based collective with membership premised on an in/out logic between nations, allowing populist national movements to engage and share a global ideological program. This paper seeks to understand and measure to what extent populism has become a transnational movement and identify how populism moves across national borders through online political participation. To explore this question, we collected over 6.7 million digital trace data on X/Twitter during Canada’s January–February 2022 Freedom Convoy movement. Receiving support from thousands of citizens, the Freedom Convoy revealed the ability of populist ideology to move aimlessly across international borders. We used a deep-learning model applied to text analysis to implement a classification task to measure populist narratives during the movement.

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数字时代的跨国主义和民粹主义网络：加拿大和自由车队


自 2010 年代初以来，全球右翼民粹主义运动的增长和成功令人瞩目。事实上，欧洲、亚洲、拉丁美洲和北美的民粹主义政党在选举中取得了巨大的成功，在政治领域内塑造了一场为人民和人民服务的运动。民粹主义运动在多大程度上影响了跨国界的其他此类项目？研究表明，全球化促进了民粹主义意识形态的传播。跨国民粹主义强调“人民”是一个“横向的、基于成员制的集体，其成员资格以国家之间的进/出逻辑为前提，允许民粹主义民族运动参与并分享全球意识形态纲领。本文旨在了解和衡量民粹主义在多大程度上已成为一场跨国运动，并确定民粹主义如何通过在线政治参与跨越国界。为了探讨这个问题，我们在加拿大 2022 年 1 月至 2 月的自由车队运动期间在 X/Twitter 上收集了超过 670 万条数字追踪数据。“自由车队”得到了数千名公民的支持，揭示了民粹主义意识形态漫无目的地跨越国际边界的能力。我们使用应用于文本分析的深度学习模型来实施分类任务，以衡量运动期间的民粹主义叙事。