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This paper investigates the macroeconomic and social determinants of voting behavior, and especially of political polarization, in 20 advanced countries using annual data ranging from 1970 to 2016 and covering 291 parliamentary elections. Using a panel estimation approach and rolling...
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Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters’ appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...
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-weighted average of populism scores of all parties) measures of the extent of populism. We show that levels of populism in the world …We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use … – especially for right-wing populism in Europe – after the great recession of 2007-10. The second novelty is that when we …
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Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient...
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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 …
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The relationship between democracy and globalisation has been the focus of substantial policy and academic debate. Some … argue that democracy and globalisation go hand in hand suggesting that unrestricted international transactions leads to …: democracies are more likely to have closed markets and vice versa. We examine these relationships between political democracy and …
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In this study we explore the global effect of the Internet on democracy over the period of 1992 to 2002 by observing … the relationships between measures related to democracy and Internet prevalence. Our results show a significant … House democracy index while still accounting for regional and socio-economic development. Indeed, we find that Internet …
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