Is There a Populist Turn in the Italian Parliament? Continuity and Discontinuity in the Non-legislative Procedures

A Costly Commitment: Populism, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy

“…However, when populism is a characteristic of political parties and there is no textual data to produce individual-level estimates, researchers can rely on candidates' party identification and code populist politicians based on whether they identify with a populist party or not. Although using party-level characteristics to infer individual-level characteristics clearly implies a loss of construct validity, we believe it is a suitable strategy for the Italian context, where several parties are clearly considered populist and deviation from party lines is punished by populist parties (Fasone 2020). 6 We obtain a list of populist parties in Italy from the PopuList Database, a collective enterprise that brings together researchers in an attempt to provide a comprehensive list of populist parties in Europe (Rooduijn et al 2019).…”

A Costly Commitment: Populism, Government Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy

“…However, when populism is a characteristic of political parties and there is no textual data to produce individual-level estimates of populism, researchers can rely on candidates' party identification and code populist politicians based on whether they identify with a populist party or not. While using party-level characteristics to infer individual-level characteristics clearly implies a loss of construct validity, we believe it is a suitable strategy for the Italian context, where several parties are clearly considered populist and deviation from party lines is punished by populist parties (Fasone 2020). 4…”