We propose that false beliefs about own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Eliciting subjects' receptiveness to rightwing populism and their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households, we find that people...

We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...

This paper considers the problem of comparing two income distributions with different numbers of income recipients. The approach eschews the quot;replication of populationsquot; of Dalton's Population Principle, which has been a fixture of the literature on income inequality since its inception....