{"id":10797,"date":"2026-08-27T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:30:12","slug":"anna-cortijos-bernabeu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/2026\/08\/anna-cortijos-bernabeu\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Cortijos Bernabeu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Populism and the Legitimacy of Political Authority: An intergroup approach to injustice-based grievances and populist beliefs in Western European democracies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Apr\u00e8s un bachelor en psychologie \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Autonome de Barcelone, puis un master de recherche en comportement et cognition et un master en intervention psychosociale \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Barcelone, Anna Cortijos Bernabeu a r\u00e9alis\u00e9 une th\u00e8se en psychologie sociale \u00e0 l\u2019Institut de psychologie de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne, sous la direction du professeur Christian Staerkl\u00e9. Elle y a d\u2019abord \u00e9t\u00e9 doctorante FNS au sein du projet \u00ab Towards a Social Psychological Approach to Populism \u00bb, puis assistante dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e. Auparavant, elle avait travaill\u00e9 comme assistante de recherche sur la qualit\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9ducation \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Barcelone et particip\u00e9 au programme international Junior Researcher Programme. \u00c0 l\u2019UNIL, parall\u00e8lement \u00e0 ses recherches, elle a assist\u00e9 des cours de psychologie sociale et politique et co-encadr\u00e9 des \u00e9tudiant\u00b7es dans la r\u00e9alisation de leur m\u00e9moire de master. Elle a soutenu sa th\u00e8se le 26 juin 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le populisme est devenu une \u00e9tiquette courante pour d\u00e9signer le m\u00e9contentement politique qui traverse les d\u00e9mocraties contemporaines. Repr\u00e9sente-t-il un \u00e9lan correctif en faveur d\u2019une plus grande inclusion citoyenne ou une menace pour des principes lib\u00e9raux-d\u00e9mocratiques comme le pluralisme ? Le d\u00e9bat reste ouvert, faute de consensus sur ce que l\u2019on entend par populisme et sur ce qui favorise son \u00e9mergence. Cette th\u00e8se aborde ces questions sous un angle psychosocial et intergroupe, en traitant le populisme comme un syst\u00e8me de croyances \u00e0 travers lequel les citoyen\u00b7nes interpr\u00e8tent la vie politique et la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 du pouvoir, au c\u0153ur de la relation entre \u00ab le peuple \u00bb et \u00ab l\u2019\u00e9lite \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combinant des donn\u00e9es d\u2019enqu\u00eate issues de huit pays d\u2019Europe occidentale et des \u00e9tudes exp\u00e9rimentales, la th\u00e8se examine d\u2019abord la structure des croyances populistes et leurs liens avec des orientations lib\u00e9rales-d\u00e9mocratiques. Les r\u00e9sultats montrent que l\u2019aspiration \u00e0 la souverainet\u00e9 du peuple et l\u2019anti-\u00e9litisme forment un noyau \u00ab peuple-\u00e9lite \u00bb qui conteste l\u2019autorit\u00e9 politique sans n\u00e9cessairement s\u2019opposer au pluralisme. Une vision manich\u00e9enne du monde politique, qui oppose le bien et le mal et d\u00e9l\u00e9gitime les adversaires, s\u2019en distingue et se rapproche davantage d\u2019un rejet de la diversit\u00e9 et du d\u00e9saccord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La th\u00e8se s\u2019int\u00e9resse ensuite aux griefs qui nourrissent ce premier noyau de croyances et met en \u00e9vidence une logique d\u2019injustice prenant deux formes : le sentiment de subir un d\u00e9savantage injuste et l\u2019impression de ne pas \u00eatre entendu\u00b7e par des institutions peu r\u00e9ceptives. Les liens entre ces griefs et les croyances populistes passent en partie par la col\u00e8re politique et la m\u00e9fiance envers les institutions. Enfin, des \u00e9tudes exp\u00e9rimentales examinent le r\u00f4le causal de ces perceptions d\u2019injustice. Elles montrent que de telles perceptions peuvent effectivement accro\u00eetre la col\u00e8re et l\u2019anti-\u00e9litisme, tout en diminuant la confiance institutionnelle. De mani\u00e8re plus inattendue, donner aux citoyen\u00b7nes davantage de possibilit\u00e9s de faire entendre leur voix ou d\u2019influencer une d\u00e9cision r\u00e9duit le m\u00e9contentement, mais n\u2019att\u00e9nue pas pour autant les effets des perceptions d\u2019injustice. Une explication possible est que ces possibilit\u00e9s \u00e9l\u00e8vent les attentes d\u00e9mocratiques, de sorte que le m\u00e9contentement peut s\u2019intensifier lorsque les r\u00e9sultats ou certains aspects des proc\u00e9dures restent per\u00e7us comme injustes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dans l\u2019ensemble, la th\u00e8se propose une conception plus minimale et nuanc\u00e9e de l\u2019id\u00e9ologie populiste, qui ne se r\u00e9duit pas \u00e0 un rejet du pluralisme, et place le sentiment d\u2019injustice au c\u0153ur de son analyse. Elle souligne l\u2019importance, pour les d\u00e9mocraties, de r\u00e9pondre aux attentes des citoyen\u00b7nes et de mieux articuler la repr\u00e9sentation politique avec leur besoin d\u2019\u00eatre r\u00e9ellement entendu\u00b7es et pris\u00b7es en compte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populism and the Legitimacy of Political Authority: An intergroup approach to injustice-based grievances and populist beliefs in Western European democracies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-theses"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"hitmag-landscape":false,"hitmag-featured":false,"hitmag-grid":false,"hitmag-list":false,"hitmag-thumbnail":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false,"mailpoet_newsletter_max":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"sschlat1","author_link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/author\/sschlat1\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Populism and the Legitimacy of Political Authority: An intergroup approach to injustice-based grievances and populist beliefs in Western European democracies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/esspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}