Do Economic and Ethnic-National Cleavges Account for Differences Between Right and Left Popoulism?

• In Event: Ethnicity, Identity and Politics

Brief Overview

The paper tests Mukand and Rodrik's theory of the roots of right and left populism by using a theory driven content analysis. Left and right regimes are clearly distinguished. I examine populist tendencies in US presidencies as out-of-sample cases.

Author

• Tracy L.R. Lightcap, LaGrange College