Anton Brännlund
Biographic Data
| ID | 377540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anton Brännlund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anton |
| FAMILY NAME | Brännlund |
| SIGNATURE | BRÄNNLUND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3877-7096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Citizens' Preferences for Narrow and Broad Security Threats: Evidence From a New Nato Member State
This study explores citizens' evaluations of competing security threats and prioritizes policy responses using data from Finland. Despite escalating geopolitical tensions and proximity to Russia, Finnish public opinion favors broader human security concerns, such as climate change and organized crime, over traditional military threats. Using a randomized conjoint experiment, we analyze how individuals evaluate trade‐offs between different threat …
Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden
The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences of the wealthy, this raises the question of how individual wealth affects political participation. Approaching this question empirically is complicated by the fact that random variation in wealth is rare, and many factors that can bias the estimation of the relationship between wealth and participati…
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design
This study investigates the link between non-liberal attitudes and adverse exposure to market disturbances during the 2008 global financial crisis, drawing from the premise that anti-liberal sentiments among Western voters stem from economic distress. We delve into three facets of liberal ideology in a Swedish sample: economic liberalism, liberal multiculturalism and liberal internationalism. Using variation in crisis exposure within identical tw…
Jolts at the ballot box: Electricity prices and voting in Swedish manufacturing communities
This research examines the overlooked political implications of energy pricing on voting patterns in manufacturing communities, amidst increasing scholarly interest in the political ramifications of Western industrial decline. We focus specifically on the surge in electricity prices and their effect on electoral choices in manufacturing-dense regions in Sweden during the 2022 general elections. The rise in electricity costs holds particular signi…
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression
In recent years, security policy attitudes have surged to the forefront of public discourse, especially amidst geopolitical shifts like Russia’s incursions into Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the South Asian Sea. Yet, despite its significance, scholarly focus on these attitudes, particularly concerning the will to resist foreign aggression, remains scant. This research endeavors to fill this gap by exploring the correlation between economic…
Who’s afraid of cryptoization? Evidence from a survey experiment in Finland
This study examines attitudes toward the economic and political outcomes of widespread cryptocurrency adoption in a survey experiment conducted in Finland. Its goal is to assess how information on the political implications of cryptocurrencies influences individuals' investment tendencies and their views on regulation and technology abolishment. Utilizing a survey experiment design for causal inference, it explores reactions to the perceived econ…
Politics on the stock market? Political investorism as a form of political participation
Political investorism involves the use of financial investments to promote political aims, but has, with some recent exceptions, received scarce attention from political scientists although there are valid theoretical reasons to consider this a new form of political participation. Here, we add new knowledge to this research agenda by examining empirically whether political investorism constitutes a distinct mode of political participation. Furthe…
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: Evidence from Sweden
How unemployment affects electoral participation is a archetypal question in political sociology and of particular relevance in economic crises; in the 1930s as well as during a pandemic. A frequent argument in the literature is that unemployment leads to political withdrawal as the unemployed have to focus on their economy and other personal matters. Some scholars, on the other hand, reason that unemployment triggers political mobilization throu…
Power politics: How electric grievances shape election outcomes
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? - Evidence from Sweden
Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs
The boom in wealth inequality seen in recent decades has generated a steep rise in scholarly interest in both the drivers and the consequences of the wealth gap. In political science, a pertinent question regards the political behavior across the wealth spectrum. A common argument is that the wealthy practice patrimonial voting, i.e. voting for right-wing parties to maximize returns on their assets. While this pattern is descriptively well docume…
Patrimony at Risk: Market Uncertainty and Right-Wing Voting
The current literature suggests that financial assets push investors to vote for conservative parties given that right-wing policies are said to generate higher returns. Another popular argument is that wealth reduces demand for welfare spending given that private assets can be used as a substitute for social benefits. What I ask in this study is if asset owners always support right-wing parties and a trimmed welfare state. I argue that owners of…
Zero per cent accountability? How low interest rates save governments from electoral defeats
The fact that scholars describe the response to the great recession as muted and moderate should motivate political scientists to study the economic vote from new angles. Hence, this study aims to investigate the compensating effect of falling interest rate expenditures on election outcomes because they usually fall when the economy slows down. To investigate this question, I use data from Swedish electoral districts between the years 2002 and 20…
Labor Market Conditions and Partisan Voting: How Unemployment Hurts the Left
Fluctuations in the labor market are a natural part of the business cycle, and they have attracted attention from political scientists for decades. Some scholars argue that left-wing parties benefit from rising rates of unemployment while others claim that voters rally behind conservative parties when the labor market weakens. I argue that the heterogeneous response of voters to a rise in the unemployment rate is due to differences in asset wealt…
Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs
The boom in wealth inequality seen in recent decades has generated a steep rise in scholarly interest in both the drivers and the consequences of the wealth gap. In political science, a pertinent question regards the political behavior across the wealth spectrum. A common argument is that the wealthy practice patrimonial voting, i.e. voting for right-wing parties to maximize returns on their assets. While this pattern is descriptively well docume…
Labor Market Conditions and Partisan Voting: How Unemployment Hurts the Left
Fluctuations in the labor market are a natural part of the business cycle, and they have attracted attention from political scientists for decades. Some scholars argue that left-wing parties benefit from rising rates of unemployment while others claim that voters rally behind conservative parties when the labor market weakens. I argue that the heterogeneous response of voters to a rise in the unemployment rate is due to differences in asset wealt…
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: Evidence from Sweden
How unemployment affects electoral participation is a archetypal question in political sociology and of particular relevance in economic crises; in the 1930s as well as during a pandemic. A frequent argument in the literature is that unemployment leads to political withdrawal as the unemployed have to focus on their economy and other personal matters. Some scholars, on the other hand, reason that unemployment triggers political mobilization throu…
Power politics: How electric grievances shape election outcomes
Patrimony at Risk: Market Uncertainty and Right-Wing Voting
The current literature suggests that financial assets push investors to vote for conservative parties given that right-wing policies are said to generate higher returns. Another popular argument is that wealth reduces demand for welfare spending given that private assets can be used as a substitute for social benefits. What I ask in this study is if asset owners always support right-wing parties and a trimmed welfare state. I argue that owners of…
Politics on the stock market? Political investorism as a form of political participation
Political investorism involves the use of financial investments to promote political aims, but has, with some recent exceptions, received scarce attention from political scientists although there are valid theoretical reasons to consider this a new form of political participation. Here, we add new knowledge to this research agenda by examining empirically whether political investorism constitutes a distinct mode of political participation. Furthe…
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? - Evidence from Sweden
Jolts at the ballot box: Electricity prices and voting in Swedish manufacturing communities
This research examines the overlooked political implications of energy pricing on voting patterns in manufacturing communities, amidst increasing scholarly interest in the political ramifications of Western industrial decline. We focus specifically on the surge in electricity prices and their effect on electoral choices in manufacturing-dense regions in Sweden during the 2022 general elections. The rise in electricity costs holds particular signi…
Zero per cent accountability? How low interest rates save governments from electoral defeats
The fact that scholars describe the response to the great recession as muted and moderate should motivate political scientists to study the economic vote from new angles. Hence, this study aims to investigate the compensating effect of falling interest rate expenditures on election outcomes because they usually fall when the economy slows down. To investigate this question, I use data from Swedish electoral districts between the years 2002 and 20…
Labor Market Conditions and Partisan Voting: How Unemployment Hurts the Left
Fluctuations in the labor market are a natural part of the business cycle, and they have attracted attention from political scientists for decades. Some scholars argue that left-wing parties benefit from rising rates of unemployment while others claim that voters rally behind conservative parties when the labor market weakens. I argue that the heterogeneous response of voters to a rise in the unemployment rate is due to differences in asset wealt…
Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs
The boom in wealth inequality seen in recent decades has generated a steep rise in scholarly interest in both the drivers and the consequences of the wealth gap. In political science, a pertinent question regards the political behavior across the wealth spectrum. A common argument is that the wealthy practice patrimonial voting, i.e. voting for right-wing parties to maximize returns on their assets. While this pattern is descriptively well docume…
Patrimony at Risk: Market Uncertainty and Right-Wing Voting
The current literature suggests that financial assets push investors to vote for conservative parties given that right-wing policies are said to generate higher returns. Another popular argument is that wealth reduces demand for welfare spending given that private assets can be used as a substitute for social benefits. What I ask in this study is if asset owners always support right-wing parties and a trimmed welfare state. I argue that owners of…
Power politics: How electric grievances shape election outcomes
How does a growing wealth gap affect voting? - Evidence from Sweden
Jolts at the ballot box: Electricity prices and voting in Swedish manufacturing communities
This research examines the overlooked political implications of energy pricing on voting patterns in manufacturing communities, amidst increasing scholarly interest in the political ramifications of Western industrial decline. We focus specifically on the surge in electricity prices and their effect on electoral choices in manufacturing-dense regions in Sweden during the 2022 general elections. The rise in electricity costs holds particular signi…
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression
In recent years, security policy attitudes have surged to the forefront of public discourse, especially amidst geopolitical shifts like Russia’s incursions into Ukraine and China’s assertiveness in the South Asian Sea. Yet, despite its significance, scholarly focus on these attitudes, particularly concerning the will to resist foreign aggression, remains scant. This research endeavors to fill this gap by exploring the correlation between economic…
Who’s afraid of cryptoization? Evidence from a survey experiment in Finland
This study examines attitudes toward the economic and political outcomes of widespread cryptocurrency adoption in a survey experiment conducted in Finland. Its goal is to assess how information on the political implications of cryptocurrencies influences individuals' investment tendencies and their views on regulation and technology abolishment. Utilizing a survey experiment design for causal inference, it explores reactions to the perceived econ…
Politics on the stock market? Political investorism as a form of political participation
Political investorism involves the use of financial investments to promote political aims, but has, with some recent exceptions, received scarce attention from political scientists although there are valid theoretical reasons to consider this a new form of political participation. Here, we add new knowledge to this research agenda by examining empirically whether political investorism constitutes a distinct mode of political participation. Furthe…
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: Evidence from Sweden
How unemployment affects electoral participation is a archetypal question in political sociology and of particular relevance in economic crises; in the 1930s as well as during a pandemic. A frequent argument in the literature is that unemployment leads to political withdrawal as the unemployed have to focus on their economy and other personal matters. Some scholars, on the other hand, reason that unemployment triggers political mobilization throu…
Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden
The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences of the wealthy, this raises the question of how individual wealth affects political participation. Approaching this question empirically is complicated by the fact that random variation in wealth is rare, and many factors that can bias the estimation of the relationship between wealth and participati…
From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design
This study investigates the link between non-liberal attitudes and adverse exposure to market disturbances during the 2008 global financial crisis, drawing from the premise that anti-liberal sentiments among Western voters stem from economic distress. We delve into three facets of liberal ideology in a Swedish sample: economic liberalism, liberal multiculturalism and liberal internationalism. Using variation in crisis exposure within identical tw…
Citizens' Preferences for Narrow and Broad Security Threats: Evidence From a New Nato Member State
This study explores citizens' evaluations of competing security threats and prioritizes policy responses using data from Finland. Despite escalating geopolitical tensions and proximity to Russia, Finnish public opinion favors broader human security concerns, such as climate change and organized crime, over traditional military threats. Using a randomized conjoint experiment, we analyze how individuals evaluate trade‐offs between different threat …
Economics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Voting (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Macroeconomics (4 works) · Market economy (4 works)