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It is hard not to see echoes of Donald Trump in Elon Musk these days.Both are world-famous entrepreneurs who have faced operatic dramas. Both are provocative on social issues, can be politically incorrect and, at times, even crude. And both excel at the art of the sell—themselves and their companies—and the ability to spin the world around their vision of it. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 It is hard not to see echoes of Donald Trump in Elon Musk…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A stable economic and political environment is necessary for firms to feel secure while making long-term investment decisions, such as those related to investing in foreign countries (also known as foreign direct investment or FDI). Any threat to change legislative procedures in the foreign country can make it difficult for firms to predict the outcomes of such decisions. Populist leaders, who…

For more than a century, the idea of democracy has meant a liberal democracy, where we vote for our leaders and our government rests on a defining document like the U.S. Constitution. In a liberal democracy, there is also a separation of powers between the different arms of our representative government and rule of law. However, this is not the only way in which democratic government can be conceived and lately, we have been drifting away from that ideal. For example, in countries like Turkey, Russia and Hungary, people…

Distribution of the agreement with four conspiracy theories. Credit: Electoral Studies (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102574 Coinciding with the increased support for populist parties that we have witnessed all over the West, the last decade has also seen an increase in the number of populism-related studies, covering topics such as the causes and consequences of voting for parties that support these ideas, or the…

Summary of causal evidence for digital media effects on political variables. Each box represents one article. Treatments are in white boxes on the left, political outcome variables in colored boxes on the right; M denotes mediators; H represents sources of effect heterogeneity or moderators. Positive (+) and negative () signs at paths indicate reported direction of effects. Location of sample indicated in top right corner of boxes, primary causal…

Credit: wellphoto, Shutterstock A recent Washington Post article commenting on Marine Le Pen's candidacy in the recent French Presidential elections stated that: "Populism has a French accent this month," belying the accepted wisdom that populism has become a global phenomenon. …