Dissecting Electoral Support for the Far Right: A Comparison between Mature and Post-Communist European Democracies. Issue 1 (4th January 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Dissecting Electoral Support for the Far Right: A Comparison between Mature and Post-Communist European Democracies. Issue 1 (4th January 2022)
- Main Title:
- Dissecting Electoral Support for the Far Right: A Comparison between Mature and Post-Communist European Democracies
- Authors:
- Brils, Tobias
Muis, Jasper
Gaidytė, Teodora - Abstract:
- Abstract: This article investigates three explanations for electoral support for the far right – 'cultural backlash', 'economic grievances' and 'protest voting' – in a novel way. Our main contribution is that we contrast far-right voters with voters of centre-right parties, traditional left-wing parties and abstainers. Equally innovative is the comparison between mature and post-communist democracies. Using European Social Survey data (2014–16), we conclude that anti-immigration attitudes are most important in distinguishing far-right voters from all other groups. Yet, these differences are significantly smaller in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, far-right voters are not the so-called socioeconomic 'losers of globalization': this is only true when compared with centre-right voters. Concerning protest voting, distrust of supranational governance particularly enhances far-right voting. Overall, our study concludes that more fine-grained distinctions pay off and avoid misleading generalizations about 'European far-right voters' often presented in public debates.
- Is Part Of:
- Government and opposition. Volume 57:Issue 1(2022)
- Journal:
- Government and opposition
- Issue:
- Volume 57:Issue 1(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 57, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0057-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 56
- Page End:
- 83
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-04
- Subjects:
- far right -- populist radical right -- voting behaviour -- anti-immigration attitudes -- abstention -- post-communist democracies
Political science -- Periodicals
320.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=GOV ↗
http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=0017-257x ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/gov.2020.17 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0017-257X
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 4203.900000
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