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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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Globalization, time-preferences, and populist voting

Aronsson, Thomas; Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie - 2020

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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Politics in the Facebook era evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020

Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...

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Let the voters choose women

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2016

Female under-representation in politics can be the result of parties' selection of candidates and/or of voters' electoral preferences. To assess the impact of these two channels, we exploit the introduction of Italian Law 215/2013, which prescribes both gender quotas on candidate lists and...

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Populists in power

Dörr, Luisa; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2021

We examine how populist governments influence political culture and economic outcomes. Some Austrian communities are governed by far-right populist mayors, directly elected by a majority of voters. We exploit close elections and find that the electorate becomes more polarized under populist...

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Populism and the skill-content of globalization : evidence from the last 60 years

Docquier, Frédéric; Guichard, Lucas; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2022

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 …

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The populist voter : a machine learning approach for the individual characteristics

Arin, Kerim Peren; Polyzos, Efstathios; Thum, Marcel - 2023

Populist parties recently have shaken Western democracies, yet there is no consensus regarding the characteristics of populist voters. By using large-scale surveys from four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the U.K.), we investigate individual determinants of populist voting. Our...

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The role of economic uncertainty in rising populism in the EU

Gozgor, Giray - 2020

24 European Union (EU) countries for the period from 1980 to 2020. In so doing, we focus on the shares of total populism …, right-wing populism, and left-wing populism votes as well as a new indicator of economic uncertainty, so-called, the "World … (IV) estimations, we show that a higher level of the WUI is positively related to total populism and right-wing populist …

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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany

Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023

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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Tariffs and politics : evidence from Trump's trade wars

Fetzer, Thiemo; Schwarz, Carlo - 2019

Are retaliatiory tariffs politically targeted and, if so, are they effective? Do countries designing a retaliation response face a trade-off between maximizing political targeting and mitigating domestic economic harm? We use the recent trade escalation between the US, China, the European Union...

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