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Title	Replication Data for: Populism and Candidate Support in the US: The Effects of “Thin” and “Host” Ideology

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5AEGPM

Creator	Castanho Silva, Bruno Neuner, Fabian G. Wratil, Christopher

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	Much of the contemporary literature on populism focuses on its status as a "thin" ideology comprising three key components: people-centrism, anti-elitism, and anti-pluralism. Populist politicians pair this "thin" ideology with extreme positions on policy issues such as immigration or taxation (referred to as host or "thick" ideologies). A recent study using German samples leveraged conjoint experiments to disentangle the effects of these appeals on vote choice. The results not only showed that extreme host-ideological positions mattered more than so-called "thin" populist appeals, but also that effects of populist appeals were nearly identical among populist and non-populist voters. Our replication in the US context reaffirms both the importance of host-ideological positions and the lack of heterogeneous effects by voters' "thin" populist attitudes. Furthermore, by uncovering some divergence from the German case (e.g., anti-elite appeals trumping people-centric appeals), we highlight the need to experimentally examine effects of populism's constituent components across contexts.

Subject	Social Sciences public opinion populism conjoint experiment

Contributor	Castanho Silva, Bruno

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