Introduction
Analyzing economic insecurity has become quite common recently, when investigating issues such as the rise of populism or the anxieties of workers. Populism and populist leaders have been grabbing the headlines of the international media for the better part of the 2010s. The election of Donald Trump in the United States and of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Brexit referendum and the emergence of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the growing popularity of populist discourse and populist parties such as the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) in Germany, the National Rally (Rassemblement national) in France, the Northern League (Lega Nord) in Italy, etc. have made populist themes as well as the theme of populism a common sight in politics.
At the same time, the reasons for the popularity of populist parties are somewhat unclear and contested. Related to this, Guiso et al. (2018) and Inglehart and Norris (2016) were interested in the connection between...
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Tétényi, A. (2020). Economic Insecurity. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_620-1
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