Elite Rhetoric and Negative Affect Towards Populists

• In Event: Voting for Populists and Autocrats: Understanding Support for Populist and Authoritarian Candidates

Brief Overview

Using two experiments from the US and Germany I show that mainstream elite rhetoric increases negative affect towards populists and test what type of attack (whether based on ideology, competence, or democracy) is the most potent.

Author

• Braeden Davis, University of California-Davis