Beyond Dilemmas of Electoral Populism: Citizen Preferences for Anti-Elite Candidates

• In Event: The Effects of Polarization

Brief Overview

Populism is thought to be attractive to voters, but the concept combines anti-elitism and anti-pluralism. I conduct a survey experiment showing that the anti-elite component from candidates is attractive to citizens rather than the anti-pluralist.

Author

• Bear Brown, Ohio State University-Main Campus