Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades … likely to support Bolsonaro in 2018. The link between trade liberalization and populism is mediated by austerity in both …