This article investigates the rise of populism in Poland, applying an interdisciplinary method, with political, social …, and economic factors as the compound reason for the turn from liberalism towards populism. The methodology of the study is … transition disparities were the main reasons for populism's prevalence. The democratic backsliding has not changed party …

positive association between economic globalization and populism. In many cases, the partial correlation is significantly …Recent micro-level studies have suggested that globalization - in particular, economic globalization - breeds political … polarization and populism. This study examines if those results generalize by examining the country-level association between vote …

We propose new measures of populism based on political parties electoral scores and platforms from the Manifesto … Project Database for the period 1960-2018. We then show empirically that over the period considered, the evolution of populism …-skill labor intensive goods generate more right-wing populism while low-skill immigration generates a shift of votes to the right …

We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use …-weighted average of populism scores of all parties) measures of the extent of populism. We show that levels of populism in the world … – especially for right-wing populism in Europe – after the great recession of 2007-10. The second novelty is that when we …