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Bowling with Trump : economic anxiety, racial identification, and well-being in the 2016 Presidential Election

Fabian, Mark; Breunig, Robert; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2020

-observed positive relationship between racial animus and Trump's vote share is eliminated by introducing an interaction between racial … significant positive association with Trump's vote share, but this is offset by high levels of relatedness. Together, these two … and worldview defense theory. We find no effect on Trump's performance from social capital or exposure to trade shocks …

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Managing refugee protection crises: policy lessons from economics and political science

Hangartner, Dominik; Sarvimäki, Matti; Spirig, Judith - 2021

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection crisis and its aftermath. In the first part of the paper, we examine the consequences of...

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Understanding the origins of populist political parties and the role of external shocks

Levi, Eugenio; Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2021

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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More than words: leaders' speech and risky behavior during a pandemic

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel da - 2021

This paper investigates if the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, in-person card transactions, and geo-localized mobile phone data for approximately 60 million devices in Brazil. After the president...

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Who voted for Trump? : populism and social capital

Giuliano, Paola; Wacziarg, Romain - 2020

significantly negatively correlated with the vote share and favorability rating of Donald Trump around the time of the election. …

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Dancing with the populist: new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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Anti‐elite politics and emotional reactions to socio‐economic problems : experimental evidence on "pocketbook anger" from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism …

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Populism, political risk and the economy : lessons from Italy

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Brianti, Marco; … - 2020

We study the effects on financial markets and real economic activity of changes in risk related to political events and policy announcements in Italy during the 2013-2019 period that saw the rise to power of populist parties. We focus on events that have implications for budgetary policy, debt...

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Income misperception and populism

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022

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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The populist dynamic : experimental evidence on the effects of countering populism

Galasso, Vincenzo; Morelli, Massimo; Nannicini, Tommaso; … - 2024

We evaluate how traditional parties may respond to populist parties on issues aligning with populist messages. During the 2020 Italian referendum on the reduction of members of Parliament, we conducted a large-scale field experiment, exposing 200 municipalities to nearly a million impressions of...

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