Populists as Chameleons? An Adaptive Learning Approach to the Rise of Populist Politicians
This paper envisions populism as a vote- and attention-maximizing strategy. It applies an adaptive learning approach to understand successes of populist party leaders. I assume that populists are ideologically flexible and continually search for a more beneficial policy position, in terms of both el...
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University of Bucharest
2015-04-01
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| Series: | European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities |
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| Online Access: | https://sites.google.com/a/fspub.unibuc.ro/european-quarterly-of-political-attitudes-and-mentalities/Home/eqpam-vol-4-no-2april2015-jaspermuis |