When the Earth Dies, the Hard Right Grows
The study, titled “Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks,” was conducted by Simone Cremaschi (Bocconi University), Nicola Bariletto (University of Texas at Austin) and Catherine E. De Vries (Bocconi University) and published in the American Political Science Review. Based on a quantitative difference-in-difference analysis of electoral data and a field survey in two communities in Apulia, the authors highlight how the Xylella epidemic has transformed economic hardship and identity loss into consensus for the far right.