Predicting the support for populist parties, past and present: Analyzing the relative utility of conventional populism measures, proxies, and workarounds when compared with state-of-the art approaches and new dedicated data compilations.

• In Event: Populism, anti-elitism, and the decline of the left

Brief Overview

How well do limited measures of populism and proxies compare with today’s state of art? Scrutinizing the effect of external contexts and voter traits, the paper explains the relative usefulness and limits of attitudinal measures.

Authors

• Reinhard C. Heinisch, University of Salzburg, Austria

• Marco Foelsch, University of Salzburg

• Annika Werner, Australian National University