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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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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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(The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America, University of Chicago Press, 1991). Non-populists provide a constant …
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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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This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades … likely to support Bolsonaro in 2018. The link between trade liberalization and populism is mediated by austerity in both …
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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 …. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti-globalization sentiment. Third, economists have …
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interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populism. Yet, there is no … interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level … populist voting on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, neither interpersonal inequality nor economic decline can explain …
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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 …
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