Is there a populist vote? Understanding variation in electoral success of populist actors

Abstract

While many populist parties are successful in elections, the level of support for populist parties varies between countries and also between left-wing and right-wing populists. Existing research provides competing arguments and empirical insights for why populist parties are successful in elections. These explanations range from typical spatial models, focusing on populist parties’ anti-immigration stances and class-based arguments focusing on economic deprivation, but also other explanations stemming for the protest potential associated with a populist vote. A related question is whether populism itself matters for understanding voters support for populist parties, or whether vote decisions are driven by the policy profile offered by populist parties. In this panel, we invite papers dealing with such questions and investigate populist parties from an electoral study perspective, i.e. papers which address the relationship between populism and voting behavior.

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