Populism and Candidate Support in the US: The Effects of Thin and Host Ideology

Silva, Bruno Castanho, Neuner, Fabian Guy and Wratil, Christopher . Populism and Candidate Support in the US: The Effects of Thin and Host Ideology. J. Exp. Polit. Sci.. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 2052-2649

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DOI:10.1017/XPS.2022.9

Abstract

Much of the contemporary literature on populism focuses on its status as a thin ideology comprising three key components: people-centrism, anti-elitism, and anti-pluralism. Populist politicians pair this thin ideology with extreme positions on policy issues such as immigration or taxation (referred to as host or thick ideologies). A recent study using German samples leveraged conjoint experiments to disentangle the effects of these appeals on vote choice. The results not only showed that extreme host-ideological positions mattered more than so-called thin populist appeals, but also that effects of populist appeals were nearly identical among populist and non-populist voters. Our replication in the US context reaffirms both the importance of host-ideological positions and the lack of heterogeneous effects by voters' thin populist attitudes. Furthermore, by uncovering some divergence from the German case (e.g. anti-elite appeals trumping people-centric appeals), we highlight the need to experimentally examine the effects of populism's constituent components across contexts.

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Creators	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Silva, Bruno Castanho	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Neuner, Fabian Guy	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED
Wratil, Christopher	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED	UNSPECIFIED