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sparking conversation as three distinct dimensions of virality, we show that narratives that are simple, feature human … demonstrate that populism is linked to a higher share of such simple, human, and villain-focused narratives …
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initiatives to introduce/extend dragnet-controls to also deal with the upcoming threat of rightwing populism. Future research …
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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 …
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We examine how populist governments influence political culture and economic outcomes. Some Austrian communities are governed by far-right populist mayors, directly elected by a majority of voters. We exploit close elections and find that the electorate becomes more polarized under populist...
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populism. Interestingly, the interplay between the two, i.e., past and current exposure to economic shocks, has a mitigating … effect on the rise of populism. Individuals who were exposed to economic shocks in the past are less likely to manifest …
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attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in … are more attuned to populist statements. Key to understanding the misperception-populism relationship are strong gender …
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in explaining the rise of populism in NZ. Understanding how these shocks led to the development of NZF is particularly … relevant for thinking about how populism has been extending its reach in the 2010s. …
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Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical 'Tullock Challenges'. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
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Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of...
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Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291703