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Micro-Level Factors Micro-Level Factors
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Party Identification Party Identification
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Candidates: The (Ir)relevance of Charismatic Leaders Candidates: The (Ir)relevance of Charismatic Leaders
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Issues, Ideology, and Value Orientations Issues, Ideology, and Value Orientations
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Pure Protest Voting, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and Unemployment (Threat) Pure Protest Voting, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, and Unemployment (Threat)
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Anti-Postmaterialism and Other Social Attitudes Anti-Postmaterialism and Other Social Attitudes
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A Silent Counterrevolution? A Silent Counterrevolution?
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Religion. Religion.
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Crime. Crime.
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Euroskepticism. Euroskepticism.
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Meso-Level Factors Meso-Level Factors
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Party Strength Party Strength
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Party Ideology Party Ideology
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Party System Factors Party System Factors
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Social Capital Social Capital
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Macro-Level Factors Macro-Level Factors
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Institutional Factors Institutional Factors
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Immigration and Unemployment Immigration and Unemployment
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Crime Crime
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Media Media
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Small Area Studies Small Area Studies
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8 Explaining Electoral Support for the Radical Right
Get accessKai Arzheimer is Professor of Politics and Political Sociology at the University of Mainz in Germany. He has published widely on the voters of the radical right in Europe, and on voting behavior and political attitudes more generally.
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Published:05 February 2018
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Abstract
The literature on the radical right’s electorate offers a plethora of potential explanations as to why people vote for the radical right. This chapter organizes the presumptive causes of right-wing voting along the lines of the familiar micro-meso-macro scheme, focusing both on a number of landmark studies and on some of the latest research. In doing so, it weighs the evidence in favor of and against some prominent hypotheses about the conditions for radical right party success, including the pure-protest hypothesis, the charismatic-leader hypothesis, and the silent-counterrevolution hypothesis. It also discusses the existing knowledge on the effects of a host of meso- and macro-level factors, and points out some directions for further research. The chapter concludes that radical right mobilization is now the rule rather than the exception, and that we should perhaps focus on understanding why it is not successful in some cases.
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