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    Conditional Populist Party Support The Role of Dissatisfaction and Incumbency
    (Cambridge University Press, 2025-02-03) Wiesehomeier, Nina; Ruth Lovell, Saskia ; Singer, Matthew; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    Populists emerge when distrust of state institutions or dissatisfaction with democracy convince voters that claims about conspiring elites blocking the general will are valid. We propose that these dynamics change when populists are incumbents; once they command institutions, their sustained support becomes contingent upon trust in the new institutional order, and they are held accountable for making people think democracy is working well. Newly collected data on party populism and survey data from Latin America show that support for populist parties in the region is conditioned by satisfaction with democracy as well as the incumbency status of populists. Dissatisfied voters support populist opposition parties, but support for populist incumbents is higher among those satisfied with democracy and its institutions. While democratic deficits and poor governance provide openings for populists, populists are held accountable for institutional outcomes.
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    Populism and Understandings of Democracy
    (Taylor & Francis, 2024-11-07) Wiesehomeier, Nina; Singer, Matthew; Chryssogelos, Angelos; Hawkins, Eliza Tanner; Hawkins, Kirk; Littvay, Levente; Wiesehomeier, Nina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    The advancement of populism has led to a vivid discussion of its corrective or threatening potential for representative democracy. The impact of populism may depend, however, on the particular vision populist voters hold of democracy. Using questions from the European Social Survey (2012) that aim to measure the population's understanding of the concept of democracy, this paper explores whether populist voters differ significantly from non-populist voters in their understanding of democracy. The results suggest that European populists are not less likely to conceive of democracy in terms of electoral competition or liberal checks and balances. Rather, they are more likely to add elements of direct democracy, government transparency, and enhanced welfare state to those standard elements of democratic competition and strongly endorse democratic responsiveness by parties in office as public opinion shifts. Yet, the data also show that populist voters reject the protection of minority rights, are less satisfied with democracy than non-populist voters, and are less committed to democracy itself as an important ideal.