Populism in legislative arena? Contributions from Brazilian case

• In Event: Populism and Democratic Erosion in Latin America

Brief Overview

To what extent do Brazilian legislators adopt populist discourse? Using NLP (LLMs) to analyze speeches (2010-2022) in legislative arena, this study finds that populism rose after Rousseff's impeachment and spread after Bolsonaro's election.

Author

• Guilherme Tiengo, University of Sao Paulo