Socialists Turned into Nationalists: How the Left Strategy Cultivates the Working Class Nationalists

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

Brief Overview

This paper uses a modified spatial model where parties can choose which dimension of their policy they want to emphasize. The model predicts that nationalists benefit the most when the left neglects its redistributive policies.

Author

• Jaerin Kim, Washington University in St. Louis