This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism …. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti-globalization sentiment. Third, economists have …. History encourages us to avoid an overly simplistic view of populism and its correlates. …

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 …