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This paper presents an experiment where 48 Indonesian villages were randomly assigned to choose development projects through either representative-based meetings or direct election-based plebiscites. Plebiscites resulted in dramatically higher satisfaction among villagers, increased knowledge...
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Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic … distinguish between left-wing and right-wing variants of populism, which differ with respect to the societal cleavages that …
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Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...
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of traditional Latin American populism are present in more recent manifestations from around the globe …
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Motivated by the recent rise of populism in western democracies, we develop a model in which a populist backlash … development, and trade deficits are more vulnerable to populism, both in the model and in the data. Evidence on who voted for …
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globalization can stimulate populism, two each on the demand and supply sides of politics, respectively. I evaluate the empirical …
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Most populist regimes in Latin American countries used trade policy to redistribute income, despite being less efficient than other redistribution schemes such as transfers financed with an income tax. Often, this outcome is attributed to the lack of fiscal capacity in Latin American countries....
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We study whether anger fuels the rise of populism. Anger as an emotion tends to act as a call to action against … a more complex sense of malaise and gloom, rather than anger per se, drives the rise in populism …
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This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism …. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is 'an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it … poses a threat to democracy'. We make three historical arguments. First, late 19th century US Populists were not populist …
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Individuals of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry in the US have been targeted by anti-immigrant and counterterrorism policies and have been the focus of vitriolic political rhetoric. Despite this, lack of data identifying MENA individuals has prevented systematic evaluation of the...
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