This paper investigates whether the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, credit card expenses …
Providing affordable access to enough healthy and safe food for an ever-more-affluent and growing world population has become more challenging in the face of climate change, rising …
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 …
The increasing success of populist and radical-right parties is one of the most remarkable developments in the politics of advanced democracies. We investigate the impact of …
G Bonomi, N Gennaioli… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her …
S Guriev, N Melnikov… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
How does mobile broadband internet affect approval of government? Using Gallup World Poll surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries from …
A Alesina, M Tabellini - Journal of Economic Literature, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …
We review the literature on the globalization backlash, seen as the political shift of voters and parties in a protectionist and isolationist direction, with substantive implications on …
G Levy, R Razin, A Young - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We develop a dynamic model of political competition between two groups that differ in their subjective model of the data generating process for a common outcome. One group has a …