The Ballad of the People: Evaluating Citizen Preferences for Populist Rhetoric Among Congressional Candidates

• In Event: Campaigns and their Voters

Brief Overview

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

Author

• Bear Brown, Ohio State University-Main Campus