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Jul 17, 2019

The Age of Cynical Voters

Voters who support populist parties and leaders are making political choices that they know to be risky because they feel as though they have nothing to lose. As behavioral economists would predict, people become less risk-averse when the perceived choice is between “bad” and “worse.”

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Sierakowski, Sławomir. “The Age of Cynical Voters.” July 2019.

Project Syndicate, Online, 17.07.2019