predominantly observable in state elections, though attacks that receive high media coverage increase the AfD vote share in Federal … migration. Exploiting news reports, we find that successful attacks receive more media coverage from local and regional …

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by … populism as well. In this chapter, we ask whether elements of public deliberation may be a means to reasonably responding to …

Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional … representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically …, the causal effects of local representation are difficult to identify. We investigate the relationship between local …

undermined trust in politicians, the media, the EU and social welfare spending financed by taxes. This is mainly due to economic …

attitudes (trust in domestic and international institutions, populism and immigration); and iii) social aspects …

initiatives to introduce/extend dragnet-controls to also deal with the upcoming threat of rightwing populism. Future research …

nuanced definitions of populism. Our contribution is both to test the walking stick claim and to present a novel dataset for … studying the economic effects of populism. We find compelling evidence for our walking stick hypothesis in both GDP per capita …