TY  - RPRT
A1  - Albers, Thilo N. H.
A1  - Kersting, Felix
A1  - Kosse, Fabian
T1  - Income misperception and populism
N2  - 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.
T3  - Würzburg Economic Papers (W. E. P.) - 104 
KW  - Populismus
KW  - Perception
KW  - Income
KW  - Populism
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-321696
ER  -