Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties

Arzheimer, Kai; Carter, Elisabeth

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“…For the countries with both a conservative and a Christian party (Belgium, Switzerland, Finland and Norway), we include both the conservative and Christian voters (the most attractive parties for religious people in these countries (van der Brug et al 2009)) and compare these to the RRP voters. The presented model is inspired by Arzheimer and Carter (2009) and generally produces a good model fit in all seven countries (see Appendix A, Table A1). We add the theoretically relevant religious belief dimension as an independent variable and model the covariance between the religious belief dimension and the religious practice dimension (see Figure 1).…”

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“…As Arzheimer and Carter (2009) put it: religion has an 'encapsulating' effect on party choice. It is not necessarily because they differ from RRP voters in their attitudes that they do not vote for a RRP -they follow the norm of voting for a Christian party, even when the RRP is ideologically closer.…”

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“…This empirical finding is explained by the idea that religious people are more integrated in religious communities that are likely to vote for a Christian party; this makes them more likely to vote for traditional Christian parties rather than RRPs that promote intolerant, xenophobic ideologies (Billiet 1995). Additionally, RRPs have not been regarded as credible alternatives for religious voters, because Christian religiosity is a non-issue in RRP party programmes (Arzheimer and Carter 2009).…”

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“…Billiet 1995). Notably, Arzheimer and Carter (2009) introduce a broader conceptualisation -encompassing attendance, belonging, praying, and subjective religiosity -but use a composite measure that inhibits investigation of the potential different relations between the religious dimensions and RRP voting. We hypothesise and test whether religious Religion as Catalyst or Restraint of Radical Right Voting?…”

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“…Theories of social altruism; and those values stand in stark opposition to the PRR party profile (Arzheimer and Carter 2009;Billiet 1995). Theories of social altruism; and those values stand in stark opposition to the PRR party profile (Arzheimer and Carter 2009;Billiet 1995).…”

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Explaining the Religion Gap in Support for Radical Right Parties in Europe

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2015

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Across Europe populist radical right (PRR) parties advertise themselves as defenders of Christian identity and values, but they do not seem to strongly attract religious Christian voters. This article tests a general framework for understanding this religion gap in 13 countries. Findings extend earlier research on religiosity and radical right attitudes, provide insight on East-West differences in the PRR phenomenon, and lend conditional support to the notion of a "vaccine effect" suggested by prior research.

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Authoritarian Populist Opinion in Europe

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2019

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and Holland. Representative sample surveys with a common set of questions were conducted in each of these countries and in the UK in November 2016. The paper shows that authoritarian populist attitudes (anti-immigrant, anti-EU, anti-Human Rights and pro a robust foreign policy) form a single AP factor or scale in ten of the twelve countries surveyed (the two exceptions are Romania and Lithuania). Across these ten countries the sources of AP attitudes are also very similar, with particularly strong effects being observed for the perceived cultural consequences of immigration. The paper uses cluster analysis to show that authoritarian populism is not an exclusively right-wing mindset among European mass publics. Analysis of voting data shows that the reservoir of support for authoritarian populist parties is much larger than either the current electoral strength of such parties or the proportion of the population that intends to vote for them at the next general election would suggest.

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Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties

Cited by 127 publications

References 48 publications

Religion as Catalyst or Restraint of Radical Right Voting?

Religion as Catalyst or Restraint of Radical Right Voting?

Explaining the Religion Gap in Support for Radical Right Parties in Europe

Authoritarian Populist Opinion in Europe

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