Cleavage politics in ordinary reasoning: How common sense divides

Damhuis, Koen; Westheuser, Linus

doi:10.1080/14616696.2023.2300641

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“…Recent studies indicate that similar commonsensical prioritizations-and the perceived provocation thereof-are crucial to understand the political reasoning of ordinary citizens, in which moral intuitions and affectively charged group distinctions, taken from the domain of everyday life, loom particularly large (one thinks of "hard-working, " "lazy-bones, " "do-gooders, " "rule breakers, " etc. ; see, e.g., Bornschier et al, 2021;Mau et al, 2023;Damhuis and Westheuser, 2024;Zollinger, 2024). Accordingly, future research could focus more closely on the different mobilizations of resentment we identified, and the corresponding "inversions of commonsensical priorities" they entail, to develop a better understanding of the electoral appeal of PRRPs.…”

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The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

Damhuis,

Rashkova

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The role of emotions in politics is drawing increasing scholarly attention. Yet, despite this heightened interest, the ways in which politicians concretely appeal to emotions of their target audience are still blurry. Let aside how they do so in different contexts. This article focuses on an affect that is frequently mentioned as the key driver explaining the electoral appeal of populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs): resentment. In that respect, several authors have used the term “the politics of resentment,” even though the exact definition of resentment often remains unclear. In this article, we theorize what resentment precisely is and how it is used politically, and hypothesize how it is mobilized in different ways by PRR parties in different contexts. Empirically, then, we employ content analysis to study a corpus of party documents of PRRPs in three West and two East European countries from 2004 onwards and identify three types of resentment mobilized by the radical right: (1) redistributive resentment; (2) recognitory resentment; and (3) retributive resentment. Despite being expressed in a more heterogeneous way than we theoretically expected, these forms of resentment share important commonalities that, we argue, can help to better understand the electoral appeal of radical right-wing parties.

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The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

Damhuis,

Rashkova

2024

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„Ja, aber“: Gesellschaftliche Konflikte verstehen. Eine Replik

Mau,

Lux,

Westheuser

2024

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Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century

Bornschier,

Haffert,

Häusermann

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Western Europe is experiencing growing levels of political polarization between parties of the New Left and the Far Right. The authors argue that this antagonism reflects the emergence of a social cleavage between universalism and particularism. To understand cleavage formation in the midst of party system fragmentation and the proliferation of new competitors, they emphasize the crucial role of group identities. Anchored in social structure, group identities help us understand why specific party appeals resonate with certain groups, thereby mediating the link between socio-structural change and broader party blocks defined by their distinctive ideologies along the new cleavage. Based on original survey data from France, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK, this Element presents evidence for the formation of a universalism–particularism cleavage across European party systems that diverge strongly on institutional and political characteristics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cleavage politics in ordinary reasoning: How common sense divides

Cited by 4 publications

References 87 publications

The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

„Ja, aber“: Gesellschaftliche Konflikte verstehen. Eine Replik

Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century

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