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 …

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 …

. We split the postwar decades in three periods: the catching-up period, the overt populism period of 1973-1993, and the … 1993-2008 of stealth populism. In each period, we identify the important players to see how they managed to forge a …. The covert populism of the last period used an unsustainable expansion of foreign borrowing to allow for an …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …

Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The … options and derive information about those effects from the mass media. The media might however secretly collude with interest …, it is shown that an increase in the concentration of firm ownership makes the occurrence of media bias more likely …

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 …

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 …