How Populist Are the People? Measuring Populist Attitudes in Voters

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1324-1353

  Akkerman, Agnes ^a   Mudde, Cas ^b   Zaslove, Andrej ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

left populism; measuring populism; populism; radical right populism; voter attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904409423     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414013512600     Document Type: Article

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