Populist leaders and the economy

M Funke, M Schularick, C Trebesch - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25 percent of nations
currently governed by populists. How do economies perform under populist leaders? We …

A costly commitment: Populism, economic performance, and the quality of bureaucracy

L Bellodi, M Morelli, M Vannoni - American Journal of Political …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We study the consequences of populism for economic performance and the quality of
bureaucracy. When voters lose trust in representative democracy, populists strategically …

Politics as usual? Measuring populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism in US presidential campaigns (1952–2020) with neural language models

B Bonikowski, Y Luo, O Stuhler - Sociological Methods & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Radical-right campaigns commonly employ three discursive elements: anti-elite populism,
exclusionary and declinist nationalism, and authoritarianism. Recent scholarship has …

Populism and the politicisation of foreign policy

S Destradi, J Plagemann, H Taş - The British Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Populists in power often resort to the politicisation of foreign policy to generate domestic
support. This article explores this process. First, it conceptualises populist politicisation of …

The populist way out: Why contemporary populist leaders seek transnational legitimation

DF Wajner - The British Journal of Politics and International …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article aims to contribute to the growing academic debate on the transnational drivers
and patterns of contemporary populism. As populist leaderships expand both politically and …

The gendered effect of populism on innovation

J Tang, W Ye, M Hu, SX Zhang, SA Khan - Journal of Business Venturing, 2024 - Elsevier
This research addresses the impact of the remarkable rise in populism on innovative new
ventures. Integrating institutional theory with gender role congruity theory, we reason that the …

The geography of EU discontent and the regional development trap

A Rodríguez-Pose, L Dijkstra, H Poelman - Economic Geography, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While in recent times many regions have flourished, many others are stuck—or are at risk of
becoming stuck—in a development trap. Such regions experience decline in economic …

Populist foreign policy: map** the develo** research program on populism in international relations

DF Wajner, P Giurlando - International Studies Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This article reviews one of the expanding research programs in international relations (IR):
the study of populist foreign policy (PFP). Recent years have witnessed a significant …

So thin it's almost invisible: Populist attitudes and voting behavior in Brazil

BC Silva, M Fuks, ER Tamaki - Electoral Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Contemporary research classifies populism as a thin-centered ideology, which can be
attached to different “host” ideologies. Populist attitudes have been found to predict electoral …

How populist are parties? Measuring degrees of populism in party manifestos using supervised machine learning

J Di Cocco, B Monechi - Political Analysis, 2022 - cambridge.org
One of the main challenges in comparative studies on populism concerns its temporal and
spatial measurements within and between a large number of parties and countries. Textual …