Dr. Nils Düpont from INF-project has published a new article together with co-authors Nina Wiesehomeier and Saskia Ruth-Lovell on the diffusion of populism in the American Journal of Political Science.
Analyzing diffusion effects among 923 parties in 67 countries from 1970 to 2018 they find that similar levels of political and economic exclusion foster learning from and emulating other parties abroad. Moreover, they also uncover conditional effects for learning from other parties facing similar levels of income inequality or public sector corruption that hinge on a cultural prescreening. For the latter they adapt the idea of "cultural spheres" introduced by CRC project A05, already applied for successfully analyzing the introduction of social policies (e.g., Windzio et al. 2022). With their focus on party-to-party diffusion they complement the CRC’s analysis of possible pathways how ideas and public policies diffuse across borders.
Contact:
Dr. Nils Düpont
CRC 1342: Global Dynamics of Social Policy
Mary-Somerville-Straße 7
28359 Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-57060
E-Mail: duepont@uni-bremen.de
