Religion as Catalyst or Restraint of Radical Right Voting?

Immerzeel, Tim; Jaspers, Eva; Lubbers, Marcel

doi:10.1080/01402382.2013.797235

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“…Dolezal et al 2010;Gerber et al 2010) or used individual-level data from similar, small groups of comparable countries (e.g. Ersanilli and Ruud 2011;Immerzeel et al 2013). …”

Section: Immigrant Characteristicsmentioning

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Explaining Attitudes toward Immigration: The Role of Regional Context and Individual Predispositions

Karreth¹,

Singh²,

Stojek³

2015

West European Politics

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Existing research makes competing predictions and yields contradictory findings about the relationships between natives' exposure to immigrants and their attitudes toward immigration. Engaging this disjuncture, this article argues that individual predispositions moderate the impact of exposure to immigrants on negative attitudes toward immigrants. Negative attitudes toward immigration are more likely among individuals who are most sensitive to such threats. Because country-level studies are generally unable to appropriately measure the immigration context in which individuals form their attitudes, this article uses a newly collected dataset on regional immigration patterns in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland to test the argument. The data show that increasing and visible diversity is associated with negative attitudes toward immigrants, but only among natives on the political right. This finding improves the understanding of attitudes toward immigrants and immigration and has implications for the study of attitudes toward other policies and for immigration policy itself.The relationship between the presence of immigrants and citizens' attitudes toward immigrants and migration policies is uncertain and frequently debated. One perspective represented in many studies suggests that 'an increase in the percentage of ethnic minority members … reduces the majority's prejudice' (Wagner et al. 2006: 380). Another group of studies contradicts this finding, as exemplified by Quillian (1995: 602): 'prejudice is more likely when there is a large foreign presence'. These divergent findings align with the competing predictions from theories of natives' attitudes towards immigrants. Ethnic competition theory and realistic group conflict theory see exposure to outgroups, especially those from ethnically and culturally distinct origins, as leading to anti-immigrant attitudes among natives (Quillian 1995). Conversely, intergroup contact theory (e.g. Allport 1954) argues that larger outgroup populations can engender positive attitudes, although the eponymous 'contact' mechanism takes time to develop and its benefits are conditional on relative socioeconomic equality. On a different

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“…Dolezal et al 2010;Gerber et al 2010) or used individual-level data from similar, small groups of comparable countries (e.g. Ersanilli and Ruud 2011;Immerzeel et al 2013). …”

Section: Immigrant Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Attitudes toward Immigration: The Role of Regional Context and Individual Predispositions

Karreth¹,

Singh²,

Stojek³

2015

West European Politics

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“…Prior studies have shown that non‐religious people are more likely to support both the radical left (Ooijevaar & Kraaykamp ) and the radical right (Immerzeel et al. ).…”

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Support for radical left ideologies in Europe

Visser

Lubbers

Kraaykamp

et al. 2013

European J Political Res

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This article examines support for radical left ideologies in 32 European countries. It thus extends the relatively scant empirical research available in this field. The hypotheses tested are derived mainly from group‐interest theory. Data are deployed from the 2002–2010 European Social Surveys (N = 174,868), supplemented by characteristics at the country level. The results show that, also in the new millennium, unemployed people and those with a lower income are more likely to support a radical left ideology. This is only partly explained by their stronger opinion that governments should take measures to reduce income differences. In contrast to expectations, the findings show that greater income inequality within a country is associated with reduced likelihood of an individual supporting a radical left ideology. Furthermore, cross‐national differences in the likelihood of supporting the radical left are strongly associated with whether a country has a legacy of an authoritarian regime.

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“…Indeed, comparative studies of European countries have found that religiosity can work as a "vaccine" against radical right voting (Arzheimer/Carter 2009). At the same time, it is possible that Catholics become more susceptible to anti-immigrant/anti-muslim agitation as church attendance and the "religious integration" of Catholics declines (Immerzeel , et al 2013, Meyer 2013).…”

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The long-term effects of oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism and the Alternative für Deutschland

Haffert¹

2020

Preprint

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Contemporary political behavior is often affected by historical legacies, but the specific mechanisms through which these legacies are transmitted are difficult to pin down. This paper argues that historical political conflicts can affect political behavior over several generations when they trigger an enduring organizational mobilization. It studies how the oppression of German Catholics in the 19th century led to a regionally differentiated mobilization of political Catholicism that still affects political support for the radical right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) today. Using newly collected data on historical oppression events, it shows that Catholic regions where oppression was intense saw greater mobilization of Catholic lay organizations than Catholic regions where oppression was milder and show lower support for the AfD today. The paper thus contributes to the literature on the historical determinants of political behavior as well as to the question which regional context effects strengthen or weaken the radical right.

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Religion as Catalyst or Restraint of Radical Right Voting?

Cited by 54 publications

References 26 publications

Explaining Attitudes toward Immigration: The Role of Regional Context and Individual Predispositions

Explaining Attitudes toward Immigration: The Role of Regional Context and Individual Predispositions

Support for radical left ideologies in Europe

The long-term effects of oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism and the Alternative für Deutschland

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