The politics of social status: Economic and cultural roots of the populist right

N Gidron, PA Hall - The British journal of sociology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores the factors that have recently increased support for candidates and
causes of the populist right across the developed democracies, especially among a core …

Populism as a problem of social integration

N Gidron, PA Hall - Comparative Political Studies, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
We argue that support for parties of the radical right and left can usefully be understood as a
problem of social integration—an approach that brings together economic and cultural …

Emotional roots of right-wing political populism

M Salmela, C Von Scheve - Social Science Information, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise of the radical populist right has been linked to fundamental socioeconomic changes
fueled by globalization and economic deregulation. Yet, socioeconomic factors can hardly …

Economic globalization, job insecurity and the populist reaction

A Mughan, C Bean, I McAllister - Electoral Studies, 2003 - Elsevier
A striking change in the political party systems of many established democracies in recent
years has been the rise to electoral and political prominence of right-wing populist parties …

Economic drivers of populism

S Guriev - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018 - aeaweb.org
The recent wave of populism is different from the previous ones, thus generating the
demand for noneconomic explanations, such as identity politics and cultural factors. In this …

The declining middle: Occupational change, social status, and the populist right

T Kurer - Comparative Political Studies, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the political consequences of occupational change in times of rapid
technological advancement and sheds light on the economic and cultural roots of right-wing …

Right-wing populist parties and the working-class vote: What have you done for us lately?

HG Betz, S Meret - Class politics and the radical right, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Introduction To many, the transformation of West European party systems since the 1970s
and 1980s was seen as evidence that the era of cleavage-based politics was over. The rise …

Economic inequality and the rise of far‐right populism: A social psychological analysis

S Jay, A Batruch, J Jetten, C McGarty… - Journal of Community …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It is argued that far‐right (FR) populism in the West is fuelled by inequality. In this paper, we
argue that three social psychological processes are central to explaining these phenomena …

Trump, Brexit, and the rise of populism: Economic have-nots and cultural backlash

RF Inglehart, P Norris - 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Rising support for populist parties has disrupted the politics of many Western societies. What
explains this phenomenon? Two theories are examined here. Perhaps the most widely-held …

Populist psychology: economics, culture, and emotions

M Rhodes-Purdy, R Navarre… - The Journal of …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Historical trends seem to show that populism, defined here as movements that self-identify
as representatives of a unified good people confronting a corrupted or malevolent elite …