Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties

Sipma, Take; Lubbers, Marcel; Spierings, Niels

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102778

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“…The 2021 DPES (Dutch Parliamentary Election Study; Jacobs et al 2021;Sipma et al 2021a) and2021 DEMES (Dutch Ethnic Minority Election Study;Sipma et al 2021b) offer a unique set of data. These studies combine an oversampling of citizens with African, Asian, and Latin American backgrounds with data on various political attitudes and behaviors, including novel measurements of citizens' feelings of descriptive and substantive representation.…”

Section: Dpes and Demesmentioning

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Minding the political engagement gap: how discrimination and religion impact Dutch voters with an immigrant background

Spierings

Vermeulen

2023

Acta Polit

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This article examines the gap between the political engagement of Dutch citizens with an racialized immigrant background and those without one. Analyzing the effect of perceived cultural and religious inclusion and exclusion, we look into what citizens with an immigrant background make of politics—measured in what we call the evaluation gap—and their actual electoral behavior—measured in what we call the participation gap. Drawing from the 2021 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study and the 2021 Dutch Ethnic Minority Election Study, we include a uniquely broad range of immigrant backgrounds in our analysis. This combination of studies lets us transcend typical migrant/non-migrant dichotomies and include smaller, often understudied immigrant groups. Our analyses reveal that the evaluation gap is most pronounced for the largest, most-frequently studied immigrant groups, while the participation gap is most pronounced among commonly overlooked groups. Embeddedness in religious communities does not correlate with the evaluation gap though it does seem to suppress a deeper participation gap. Perceived discrimination, including in the form of underrepresentation, mobilizes citizens with an immigrant background, which obscures an underlying participation gap while also partly explaining the evaluation gap.

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Minding the political engagement gap: how discrimination and religion impact Dutch voters with an immigrant background

Spierings

Vermeulen

2023

Acta Polit

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“…We used data from a representative sample of Dutch adults from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2021 (DPES; Jacobs et al, 2021;Sipma et al, 2021). The DPES is part of the National Election survey, which measures the opinion of Dutch voters on social and political issues since 1971.…”

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Our gloomy future and glorious past: societal discontent, national nostalgia and support for populist radical-right parties in the Netherlands

Smeekes,

Lubbers

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Political campaign slogans, such as “Make America Great Again” or “The Netherlands Ours Again,” indicate that right-wing populists in Western countries use nostalgia to depict the national past as glorious. At the same time, populist radical-right parties (PRRP) portray this glorious past as being in stark contrast with the gloomy present of their country, which is portrayed as being in a state of decline. This suggests that PRRP in Western societies draw on both societal discontent (i.e., the belief that society is in decline and poorly functioning) and national nostalgia (i.e., a longing for the good old days of the country) to mobilize their voters. Although there is a burgeoning literature on reasons for PRRP electoral support, fewer studies have focused on its emotional or affective underpinnings. While scholars have proposed that both societal discontent and national nostalgia are an integral piece of a new master-frame employed by PRRP in Western countries to increase their electoral appeal, these elements have hardly been empirically studied in reference to voters. Relying on an integration of research in political science and social psychology, we hypothesized that both societal discontent and national nostalgia go together with a greater sympathy, and likelihood of voting, for PRRP. In addition, we predicted that national nostalgia is an explanatory mechanism that links societal discontent to more support for PRRP. These hypotheses were tested in the context of the Netherlands, among a representative sample of native Dutch voters, using the Dutch Parliamentary Elections Study of 2021. Results demonstrated that while both societal discontent and national nostalgia were relevant predictors of PRRP support, there was no strong evidence for national nostalgia as an explanatory mechanism of the link between societal discontent and PRRP support.

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Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections

Helske

Kawalerowicz

2023

Acta Polit

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This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Democrats, the main radical right-wing party in Sweden, as opposed to running for mainstream political parties. We find that the labour market trajectories of such candidates are markedly different from those of mainstream party candidates. Those with turbulent or out-of-labour market trajectories are much more likely to run for the Sweden Democrats, as opposed to other parties. The same is also true for candidates embedded in social networks with higher levels of unemployment, while working in a high-skilled industry markedly lowers the probability of running for the Sweden Democrats, especially for male candidates with low educational attainment. We find mixed results for the ethnic threat hypothesis.

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Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties

Cited by 10 publications

References 50 publications

Minding the political engagement gap: how discrimination and religion impact Dutch voters with an immigrant background

Minding the political engagement gap: how discrimination and religion impact Dutch voters with an immigrant background

Our gloomy future and glorious past: societal discontent, national nostalgia and support for populist radical-right parties in the Netherlands

Citizens’ candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections

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