Replication Data for: Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey

Replication data for the paper entitled "Politics of Nostalgia and Populism: Evidence from Turkey" ABSTRACT This article aims to scrutinize the relationship between collective nostalgia and populism. Different populist figures utilize nostalgia by referring to the good old, glorious days of their country and reflecting their resentment against the elites and establishment. Populists instrumentalize nostalgia for constituting their populist heartland, which is a retrospectively constructed utopia on an abandoned but undead past. By using two original datasets from Turkey, this study first analyzes whether collective nostalgia characterizes populist attitudes of the electorate. The results illustrate that collective nostalgia has a significantly positive relationship with populist attitudes even after controlling for various independent variables, including religiosity, partisanship, satisfaction with life, and Euroskepticism. Secondly, this study tests whether nostalgic messages affect populist attitudes with an online survey experiment. The results indicate that Ottoman nostalgia paves the way for increasing populist attitudes. Kemalist nostalgia, on the other hand, has a weak direct effect on populist attitudes, but its effect disappears when controlled with party preference.