Thrilled to share that my article "From the Factory Floor to the Ballot Box: Firm-Based Origins of Brazil's Populist Right" is now out at the British Journal of Political Science
Matias Giannoni
Using a natural experiment on retail deregulation in Italy and an original survey experiment of 1,300 employees, I find that the entry of large low-road firms increased support for the Lega Nord and anti-system attitudes.
Using RAIS matched employer–employee data + a unique dataset of 69k Bolsonaro supporters + a survey experiments on full-time private sector workers, I show that:
