Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment

Borwein, Sophie; Lucas, Jack

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102904

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“…Therefore, it is more likely that rural residents react to the comparison of their in-group with the urban out-group with outgroup antagonism and resentment than urban residents do. This is in line with the finding by Munis (2022) whose analyses reveal higher levels of place-based resentment in rural Americans, as well as with the finding by Borwein and Lucas (2023) who find that ruralites experience the highest level of place-based resentment. Thus, my next hypothesis is: H3.…”

Section: Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 91%

“…However, in all cases, the out-group only seems to play a limited role. This is in line with Hogg's (2016) observation that people tend to categorize the world into two groups, their own in-group as well as all the others, without much distinction between different out-groups (see also Borwein and Lucas 2023).…”

Section: Robustness Check: Out-group Of Resentmentsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…This question serves to assess the respondents' self-categorization into their in-group. 6 In a next step, respondents were asked five original questions about their place-based identity and eleven original questions about their place-based resentment, which rely on a previously developed scale by and are similar to items used in other studies (Borwein and Lucas 2023). The questions on their place-based identity were adjusted according to the in-group respondents categorized themselves into in the previous question (urban, suburban, rural).…”

Section: Dataset and Operationalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, he remarks that the effects of these variables are not equally strong when investigating rural and urban resentment separately. Finally, Borwein and Lucas (2023) measure place-based resentment in urban, suburban and rural areas of Canada. They find that resentment is correlated with age, education, income, attitudes, and democratic satisfaction.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this sense, place of living can be viewed as a social identity (Tajfel and Turner 2004). Recent studies by Munis (2022), Huijsmans (2023b), and Borwein and Lucas (2023) address the concept of place-based resentment by exploring its determinants and effects. Huijsmans (2023b) investigates the macro-level in the Netherlands and finds that place-based resentment is related to the level of local unemployment, the share of knowledge economy, the linguistic distance to Standard Dutch and physical proximity of national MPs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment

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In recent years, the rural-urban divide has not only made its way back into political science, but has also been given an entirely new angle by investigating place of living as its own social identity. However, research is still in its early stages and studies so far focus on linear explanations of place-based resentment. This paper studies place in the light of social identity theory and investigates how place of living and place-based identity interact in shaping place-based resentment. Original survey data on around 4000 respondents from Switzerland from 2022 with a novel measure of place-based identity and resentment is used. A distinction is made not only between rural and urban residents, but also between the suburbanites. Results show that rural residents hold the highest levels of identity and resentment, while suburban residents hold higher levels of resentment than urban ones do. Findings show that there is a moderating effect, whereby the rural-urban divide in resentment increases with place-based identity, while the suburban-urban gap diminishes with increasing place-based identity. These differences in place-based identity and resentment could explain the rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behavior.

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Section: Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Robustness Check: Out-group Of Resentmentsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Dataset and Operationalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%