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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Carmines, Edward G.
• Schmidt, Eric R.
• Fowler, Matthew R.
• Oswald, Michael

Titel

Clarifying Our Populist Moment(s): Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in the 2016 Presidential Election

Ist Teil von

• The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, 2021, p.579-608

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Observing the rise of former President Trump, scholars have suggested that the United States is experiencing a populist moment. We suggest not only that right-wing populism has transformed Republican politics, but that mass populism has redefined the terms of partisan conflict in the United States. Right-wing populism, typified by support for hawkish immigration policies, has taken hold among Republican identifiers. Left-wing populism, involving concerns about structural economic inequality, is ubiquitous among Democratic identifiers. Using an original survey index piloted on the 2017 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), we document the prevalence and distribution of both forms of populism. Further, we show that while right-wing populism increased the likelihood that Republicans (and independents) voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, left-wing populism did not push Democrats toward Hillary Clinton. This was the case even though Democrats’ support for left-wing populism was somewhat more concentrated than Republicans’ support for right-wing populism. We attribute these asymmetric effects to the major party choices in 2016. By nominating Hillary Clinton rather than Bernie Sanders, the Democratic Party likely failed to recognize the magnitude of support for left-wing populism among the Democratic rank and file.