Are they different? A comparative study of European populist party members

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ID7950499
AutoresRuth Dassonneville (0000-0003-2511-0129, Université de Montréal, autor de correspondencia), I Mcallister (0000-0001-8448-6738, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia)
Año2023
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas16-25
Fecha de publicación2023-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaParty Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1354-0688 • E-ISSN: 1460-3683
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13540688211060652
OpenAlexW4200025292
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas37

Party membership is in decline across the established democracies, but populist parties appear to be reversing this trend. The expansion of populist parties’ membership base raises the question whether these parties are fulfilling their role as actors who serve as a “corrective to democracy” by mobilizing the socially and politically marginalized to become politically active. Using large comparative datasets from the European Social Survey and the World Values Survey, we examine the characteristics of populist party members in terms of their socio-demographic background and their political attitudes. We show that, with the exceptions of income levels and church attendance, the members of populist and non-populist parties look very much alike and hold similar political attitudes. These findings imply that mobilizing the politically disaffected remains a challenge, even for populist actors

Democracy · European Social Survey · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Survey data collection · Turnout · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics

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