Social Connectedness and Political Populism: The United States’ 2016 and 2024 Presidential Elections Revisited

• In Event: Help From Our Friends: How Social Networks Promote Representation, Foster Political Knowledge and Participation, and Provide Insulation from Economic Shocks

Brief Overview

Using data from Meta/Facebook on social connectedness patterns across the United States, we revisit Autor et al. (2020)’s finding on the effect of trade shocks in voting for Trump in the 2016 elections, and extend it to the 2024 elections.

Authors

• Jerome Patrick Diaz de Rivera Cruz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Joohye Jeong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology