Populist Governments and the Quality of Governance: A Worldwide Comparison

D Grassi, V Memoli, EA Ahmed - PArtecipazione e COnflitto, 2022 - iris.unito.it
In spite of recent advances in the literature, there are still fewer empirical works, embracing
different regions of the world, that analyze the impact of populist governments on the quality …

Threat or corrective? Assessing the impact of populist parties in government on the qualities of democracy: A 19-country comparison

D Vittori - Government and Opposition, 2022 - cambridge.org
Scholars have long debated whether populism harms or improves the quality of democracy.
This article contributes to this debate by focusing on the impact of populist parties in …

Why do some populist presidents erode liberal democratic institutions more than others in Latin America?

S Lee - Contemporary Politics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper contributes to the current literature on the relationship between populist rule and
liberal democracy by conducting quantitative research with a time-series cross-sectional …

Hurricane or fresh breeze? Disentangling the populist effect on the quality of democracy

A Juon, D Bochsler - European Political Science Review, 2020 - cambridge.org
Are populist actors more like a hurricane that risks undermining democracy? Or do they aim
for a different type of democracy, which strengthens popular control? This article offers one …

Populism in power—A comparative analysis of populist governance

W Muno, C Pfeiffer - International Area Studies Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we seek to explore whether populism, when in power, is guided by a particular
logic of governance that can be derived from the logic of populism itself. To this end, we …

Draining the Swamp? Populist leadership and corruption

D Zhang - Governance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The resurgence of populism has presented a grave threat to democratic governance across
the globe. Drawing on a cross‐national dataset of 155 countries from 1960 to 2020, we …

Resilience without resistance: Public administration under mutating populisms in office in Italy

F Di Mascio, A Natalini, E Ongaro - Democratic backsliding and public …, 2021 - iris.unito.it
This chapter describes the dynamics of administrative change and bureaucratic resilience
under populist governments in Italy, focusing on the first two decades of the 2000s, which …

The longer the worse? The case of populism, anti-pluralism, and constitutional compliance

J Lewkowicz, R Woźniak, A Lewczuk, M Marcol - Democratization, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although compliance with constitutions is undoubtedly one of the most essential topics in the
current public debate, there are still a lot of questions about its determinants that have to be …

The wild bunch! An empirical note on populism and economic institutions

M Rode, J Revuelta - Economics of Governance, 2015 - Springer
The debate on populism has recently been revitalized by the rise of new political actors,
especially in Latin America and Europe. Despite the renewed interest, the concept of …

Power or partisanship? Populist parties in power and social concertation. The case of the Italian yellow-green government, 2018-2019

A Tassinari - Stato e mercato, 2022 - rivisteweb.it
How do populist parties behave when they enter government? Various tenets of populist
ideology question and subvert established understandings of several features of liberal …