Data

An Excel file with the corresponding data can be downloaded here.  The file contains a list of the populists by country by entry year into office (see also Table 1 in the paper). In addition, it provides a panel dataset (60 countries, 1900-2018) with 0-1 dummies, indicating country-years of (right-wing or left-wing) populists in power. The coding procedure is also explained in more detail. Please cite as: Funke, Schularick, Trebesch, Populist Leaders and the Economy, CEPR Discussion Paper 15405, January 2021.  

Updated and slightly revised series of the 0-1 dummies for populist leaderships (60 countries, 1900-2020) are available for download here. Please cite Funke, Schularick, Trebesch (2023, American Economic Review) if you use these data.

If you are interested in the data for the "Going to extremes" paper (Funke, Schularick, Trebesch, 2016), you can find the replication files here.