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Rise of Populism: Identity Threats as an Explanation in Relation With Deprivation and Cultural Fear

“…Moreover, by adding control variables such as ideologies and partisanship, future analyses could deepen our understanding of the extent to which the effects of lack of recognition on populist attitudes differ by political camp. While some studies find no mediating effect of leftright self-placement on the impact of relative deprivation on populist attitudes (Droste 2019;Lüders et al 2021), other studies suggest that a closer look at these mechanisms may be worthwhile. For example, Burgoon et al (2019) show that relative loss of status varies depending on the comparison group: a relative loss of status measured by the comparison with the upper income decile thus significantly favors the election of left-wing populist parties, whereas a loss of status compared to the lowest Table 3.…”

“…Lacking social recognition has been tested as an explanation for populist or related attitudes so far (Droste 2019;Gidron and Hall 2020;Grosfeld et al 2022;Manunta et al 2022;Selenko and de Witte 2021). However, to investigate the outlined ideas, we need a more sophisticated and explicit approach.…”

“…A growing body of literature measures ontological insecurity as general anomia (Gidron and Hall 2020). Indeed, anomia is one of the strongest predictors of populist voting and of populist attitudes (Droste 2019;Elchardus and Spruyt 2016;Spruyt, Keppens, and van Droogenbroeck 2016) and feelings of social exclusion can be predictors of right-wing populist voting as well (Langenkamp and Bienstman 2022;Sachweh 2020). We restrict our measure of ontological insecurity to the anomia scale that has been empirically tested before (Gümüs et al 2014).…”

“…Moreover, both ideas do not deliver a precise explanation of how exactly macrostructural changes like modernization and globalization are supposed to affect populist attitudes at the microstructural social level. Recent studies indicate that threats to social identities which result from large scale social changes contribute significantly to the emergence of populist attitudes (Droste 2019;Groß 2021). Based on these initial findings, we introduce social recognition and identity insecurity as important mechanisms that connect social change with populist attitudes.…”

The Effect of Social Recognition on Support for Climate Change Mitigation Measures

“…The need for recognition of social categories has been at the center of the public debate for some time now, as processes of macro-social change such as globalization, liberalization, and modernization have caused major shifts in the recognition order, with consequences for social life that have yet to be fully understood. In analyzing the consequences of these social change processes Francis Fukuyama [13] identifies perceived losses in recognition by traditionally advantaged groups, while previously marginalized groups gain more recognition as one important reason for polarization and weakening of social cohesion in the U.S. For Germany, studies as well find a relation between perceived lack of social recognition and attitudes that threaten social cohesion [46,47].…”