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...

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...

Climate policy for most of the world's largest emitters starts at the ballot box. We present the first evidence on voter-level response to a climatic disaster -- the catastrophic German flooding of 2021. Exposure to flooding increased the likelihood of voting for the Green Party by four to five...