@techreport{AlbersKerstingKosse2023,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Albers, Thilo N. H. and Kersting, Felix and Kosse, Fabian},
  title     = {Income misperception and populism},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-32169},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-321696},
  pages     = {38},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {We propose that false beliefs about own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Eliciting subjects' receptiveness to rightwing populism and their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households, we find that people with pessimistic beliefs about their income position are more attuned to populist statements. Key to understanding the misperception-populism relationship are strong gender differences in the mechanism: men are much more likely to channel their discontent into affection for populist ideas. A simple information provision does neither sustainably reduce misperception nor curb populism.},
  subject      = {Populismus},
  language  = {en}
}