4. The Prince

Celenza, Christopher S.

doi:10.4159/9780674425194-005

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“…Although Machiavelli (1532) and Rousseau (1762;see Grant, 2008) already mentioned centuries ago that political success was inextricably connected with deception and hypocrisy, the concept of political cynicism among voters was only introduced in political sciences fifty-odd years ago as "the extent to which people hold politicians and politics in disrepute" (Agger, Goldstein, & Pearl, 1961, p. 477). Berman (1997) argued that captious anger and hostility are endemic to what constitutes cynicism, and political cynics even have a pervasive disbelief in the possibility of good intentions of politicians.…”

Section: Integrating Old and New Alignmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Broadening the individual differences lens on party support and voting behavior: Cynicism and prejudice as relevant attitudes referring to modern‐day political alignments

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Euro J Social Psych

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Social‐cultural and economic‐hierarchical ideological attitudes have long been used to explain variation in political partisanship. We propose two additional, stable attitudes (political cynicism and ethnic prejudice) that may help in explaining contemporary political alignments. In a Belgian (N = 509) and Dutch sample (N = 628), we showed that party support can be segmented into four broad families: left, libertarian, traditionalist, and far‐right parties. Both studies revealed that social‐cultural and economic‐hierarchical right‐wing attitudes were negatively related to left party support and positively to libertarian, traditionalist and far‐right support. Importantly, additional variance was consistently explained by political cynicism (lower libertarian and traditionalist support), ethnic prejudice (lower left support), or both (higher far‐right support). Study 2 additionally demonstrated these patterns for self‐reported voting.

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Section: Integrating Old and New Alignmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%