Leading the Leader: Demand-Side Populism and the Failures of Elite Co-optation Post-Brexit

• In Event: Campaigns, Media & Mobilization

Brief Overview

I use panel data and entropy balancing to demonstrate how consistently anti-E.U. voters strategically supported the Conservatives in 2019 to enact Brexit before abandoning them for populist newcomer Reform in future elections.

Author

• William Halm, University of California, Berkeley