Piero Stanig

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of globalization on electoral outcomes in 15 Western European countries over 1988-2007 was investigated, using both official election results at the district level and individual level.

TL;DR: The authors showed that support for the Leave option in the Brexit referendum was systematically higher in regions hit harder by economic globalization, and that the effect is driven by the displacement determined by globalization in the absence of effective compensation of its losers.

TL;DR: The authors argue that organized religion makes it possible for the rich and the religious poor to form electoral coalitions in favor of low taxes and limited redistribution, and they occur at the expense of the secular poor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how economic shocks contribute to explaining the rise of economic nationalist and radical right parties in western Europe between the early 1990s and 2016, looking in turn at theory and evidence on the political effects of globalization, technological change, the financial and sovereign debt crises of 2008-2009 and 2011-2013.

TL;DR: The authors found that during economic downturns, citizens of different ideological persuasions and partisan affiliations tend to agree that the state of the economy is dire, while during recoveries, evaluations are polarized along partisan and ideological lines.