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 …

of traditional Latin American populism are present in more recent manifestations from around the globe …

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 …

globalization can stimulate populism, two each on the demand and supply sides of politics, respectively. I evaluate the empirical …

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 …

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 …