Do incompetent politicians breed populist voters? Evidence from Italian municipalities
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- dc.contributor.author Boffa, Federico
- dc.contributor.author Mollisi, Vincenzo
- dc.contributor.author Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-14T10:09:44Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-14T10:09:44Z
- dc.date.issued 2023-03-01
- dc.date.modified 2024-11-14T10:08:54Z
- dc.description.abstract Poor performance by the established political class can drive voters towards anti-establishment outsiders. Is the inffectiveness of incumbent politicians an important driver of the recent rise of populist parties? We provide an empirical test exploiting a sharp discontinuity in the wage of local politicians as a function of population in Italian municipalities. We find that the more skilled local politicians and more effective local government in municipalities above the threshold cause a signi cant drop in voter support for the populist Five-Star Movement in regional and national elections. Support for incumbent governing parties increases instead.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1861
- dc.identifier.citation
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68589
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1861
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- dc.subject.keyword populism
- dc.subject.keyword government e¢ ciency
- dc.subject.keyword politician quality
- dc.subject.keyword political agency
- dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
- dc.title Do incompetent politicians breed populist voters? Evidence from Italian municipalities
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