The global ascendance of populism has produced an explosion of research, bringing
together scholarship on American and comparative politics as well as encouraging …

How does the experience of economic shocks affect individuals' political views and voting
behavior? Inspired partly by the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, research on this …

We synthesize the literature on the recent rise of populism. First, we discuss definitions and
present descriptive evidence on the recent increase in support for populists. Second, we …

This article sheds new light on the long-run evolution of political cleavages in 21 Western
democracies. We exploit a new database on the socioeconomic determinants of the vote …

This paper documents a significant association between the exposure of an individual or
area to the UK government's austerity-induced welfare reforms begun in 2010, and the …

We study the implications of the Great Recession for voting for antiestablishment parties, as
well as for general trust and political attitudes, using regional data across Europe. We find a …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of US politics? Analyzing
multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential …

Globalization and automation have contributed to deindustrialization and the loss of millions
of manufacturing jobs, yielding important electoral implications across advanced …

We study the politicians and voters of Sweden's Radical Right. The rise of the Sweden
Democrats is descriptively linked to macroeconomic events that magnified job insecurity and …

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative
sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of …