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Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas. Scholars
increasingly understand populist forces in terms of their ideas or
discourse, one that envisions a cosmic struggle between the will of
the common people and a conspiring elite. In this volume, we
advance populism scholarship by proposing a causal theory and
methodological guidelines - a research program - based on this
ideational approach. This program argues that populism exists as a
set of widespread attitudes among ordinary citizens, and that these
attitudes lie dormant until activated by weak democratic governance
and policy failure. It offers methodological guidelines for
scholars seeking to measure populist ideas and test their effects.
And, to ground the program empirically, it tests this theory at
multiple levels of analysis using original data on populist
discourse across European and US party systems; case studies of
populist forces in Europe, Latin America, and the US; survey data
from Europe and Latin America; and experiments in Chile, the US,
and the UK. The result is a truly systematic, comparative approach
that helps answer questions about the causes and effects of
populism.
Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas. Scholars
increasingly understand populist forces in terms of their ideas or
discourse, one that envisions a cosmic struggle between the will of
the common people and a conspiring elite. In this volume, we
advance populism scholarship by proposing a causal theory and
methodological guidelines - a research program - based on this
ideational approach. This program argues that populism exists as a
set of widespread attitudes among ordinary citizens, and that these
attitudes lie dormant until activated by weak democratic governance
and policy failure. It offers methodological guidelines for
scholars seeking to measure populist ideas and test their effects.
And, to ground the program empirically, it tests this theory at
multiple levels of analysis using original data on populist
discourse across European and US party systems; case studies of
populist forces in Europe, Latin America, and the US; survey data
from Europe and Latin America; and experiments in Chile, the US,
and the UK. The result is a truly systematic, comparative approach
that helps answer questions about the causes and effects of
populism.
The relationship between corruption and democratic performance has
always been a key question for political economists. It is
important in terms of understanding the incentives that may improve
quality of life in less developed countries. In the past, studies
of this relationship have suffered from a lack of analytical
sophistication, failed to extract all available information from
the data, and assumed causal direction without empirical testing.
No previous study has utilized nearly all countries of the world
across a large time span. This book goes deeper by overcoming these
analytical challenges. The analysis includes data for 186
countries, from 1984 to 2004. The primary finding suggests that IMF
and World Bank policies of lowering corruption before structural
adjustment is granted are misguided. The book is addressed to
advanced scholars of comparative political economy and quantitative
analytical techniques, and includes a foreword by Dr. Andrew H.
Wedeman and Senator Dr. William P. Avery, providing a broad
overview of the topic.
With the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States
presidential election, populists have come to power in the US for
the first time in many years. However, US political scientists have
been flat-footed in their response, failing to anticipate or
measure populism's impact on the campaign or to offer useful policy
responses. In contrast, populism has long been an important topic
of study for political scientists studying other regions,
especially Latin America and Europe. The conceptual and theoretical
insights of comparativist scholars can benefit Americanists, and
applying their techniques can help US scholars and policymakers
place events in perspective.
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling serves as a minimally
technical overview of multilevel structural equation modeling
(MSEM) for applied researchers and advanced graduate students in
the social sciences. As the first book of its kind, this title is
an accessible, hands-on introduction for beginners of the topic.
The authors predict a growth in this area, fueled by both data
availability and also the availability of new and improved software
to run these models. The applied approach, combined with a
graphical presentation style and minimal reliance on complex matrix
algebra guarantee that this volume will be useful to social science
graduate students wanting to utilize such models.
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