Mediators explaining radical right voting patterns of Christians in Europe: Attitudes toward immigrants, values, or social capital?

Xia, Weiqian

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102575

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“…However, Christianity has a mixed relationship with anti‐immigrant and anti‐Muslim attitudes and voting for radical right parties. Contrary to conventional theoretical arguments (Arzheimer and Carter 2009; Montgomery and Winter 2015), Xia (2021) demonstrates that European Christians are not necessarily more pro‐immigrant and less supporting of radical right parties due to their pro‐social teachings or rich social capital. Enduring attachment to mainstream right parties likely explains Christians not supporting the radical right (Arzheimer and Carter 2009; Marcinkiewicz and Dassonneville 2021) but could be changed with mainstream parties adopting an ethnonationalist agenda (Abou‐Chadi and Krause 2020; Otjes 2021).…”

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“…Therefore, radical right movements and parties in the West often use Christianity as a symbol in parading their radical nationalist agenda, primarily to target Muslims, who are painted as the "religious outsiders" (Camus 2007;Perry et al 2021;Schw€ orer and Romero-Vidal 2020). Despite these apparent linkages, the relationship between Christian religiosity and ethnonationalist attitudes and behaviors is not empirically consistent, likely due to the multidimensional nature of religiosity and the "encapsulation" of moderate mainstream right parties strongly connected to Christian churches (Doebler 2015;Immerzeel et al 2013;Storm 2011a;Xia 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite these apparent linkages, the relationship between Christian religiosity and ethnonationalist attitudes and behaviors is not empirically consistent, likely due to the multidimensional nature of religiosity and the “encapsulation” of moderate mainstream right parties strongly connected to Christian churches (Doebler 2015; Immerzeel et al. 2013; Storm 2011a; Xia 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries

Xia

2022

Sociological Forum

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Radical ethnonationalism has drastically risen in Western politics, largely mobilized by nostalgia for the country's past with homogeneity and Christianity as a cultural symbol against non‐Western immigrants, especially Muslims. However, how nostalgia for Christianity's past significance can invoke anti‐Muslim sentiments is unknown, especially given that Christianity is increasingly losing its previous status under secularization, resulting in radical backlash from the Christian right. In the current study, I examine whether nostalgia related to religion and the religious–secular gap in the perceived status of religion can induce anti‐Muslim attitudes among Christians from 20 Western countries using International Social Survey Programme data and mixed‐effect multilevel modeling. Contrary to expectations, anti‐Muslim attitudes are stronger for people with higher levels of Christian religiosity and doctrinal belief, and exclusivist view on religion, when they have less religious nostalgia by perceiving a stronger status of religion. Moreover, in countries with a larger religious–secular gap in the perceived status of religion, people holding exclusivist views on religion are more hostile to Muslims. Yet, the findings can still be consistent with theoretical expectations, since anti‐Muslim attitudes are likely promoted through backlash from the Christian community against religious diversity, expressed in demands for a larger salience of religion rather than nostalgia.

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Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries

Xia

2022

Sociological Forum

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“…What are the tendencies of association (positive/negative) between dimensions of religiosity and party support? Based on the already cited sources (Grabowska, 2021;Marcinkiewicz and Dassonneville, 2021;Xia, 2021), we may expect a strong positive association of religiosity with rightwing party preferences. Also, mass attendance, as the most frequently used indicator of religiosity in Poland, should be the most responsive in this regard.…”

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Impact of multi-dimensional religiosity on party support in Poland

BŁASZCZYŃSKI

2024

Social Compass

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This article delves into the profound implications of multi-dimensional religiosity on political party support, with a special focus on the case of Poland (N = 1203). In a society undergoing a transformative journey towards secularism and progressiveness, the traditional role of religiosity in shaping political attitudes has been reevaluated. In order to check the impact of religiosity, binomial logistic regression models were conducted. In the study, combined Wave 7 World Value Survey and European Value Study database was used. With the obtained results, a significant role of normative religiosity was detected. The results do not confirm conclusions discussed by other leading authors in Poland, who use other models and indicators of religiosity. The proposed study provokes and encourages for change in the methodological approach in building party-support models in Poland by including and measuring the normative dimension of religiosity as the leading source of individual party support motivation, discarding thus more traditional ritualistic behaviour measuring.

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“…In particular, throughout the EU, people who felt less happy and satisfied with their lives as well as those who considered their health to be poor were more likely to show more hostile ATM and support a populist party in the national elections. Populist parties -particularly right-wing parties -and their supporters tend to hold negative views on migrants and refugees (Chan, 2022;Glinitzer et al, 2021;Golec de Zavala et al, 2017Hartman et al, 2021;Van Hauwaert & Van Kessel, 2018;Wirz et al, 2018;Xia, 2021). Consequently, low subjective well-being as a correlate of support for such parties could be further related to the support for those parties' political programmes and their firm opposition to migration and open asylum and refugee policies.…”

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Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during Russian invasion of Ukraine: The case of Slovakia

Adamus¹,

Grežo²

2023

MUNI ECON WP

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Extant literature shows that well-being is one of the key drivers of attitudes towards migrants as well as preferences for asylum and refugee policies. To investigate the underpinnings of these relationships, two studies on representative samples of 600 Slovaks each were conducted before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and during its initial phase. The results show that well-being had a stable positive relationship with attitudes towards migrants across the studies, albeit not with preferences for asylum and refugee policies. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the negative feelings elicited by the war predicted preferences for asylum and refugee policies beyond well-being. The divergence between the attitudes towards migrants and the preferences urges that there is a need to extend the traditional focus on general attitudes towards migrants. Finally, the results indicate that incorporating psychological factors, such as well-being and emotional responses to the looming threat of war, may considerably inform the debate surrounding the support for inclusive asylum and refugee policies.

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Mediators explaining radical right voting patterns of Christians in Europe: Attitudes toward immigrants, values, or social capital?

Cited by 5 publications

References 51 publications

Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries

Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries

Impact of multi-dimensional religiosity on party support in Poland

Attitudes towards migrants and preferences for asylum and refugee policies before and during Russian invasion of Ukraine: The case of Slovakia

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