The victims of neoliberal globalisation and the rise of the populist vote
A comparative analysis of three recent electoral decisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12913552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jürgen Essletzbichler (0000-0002-2680-3691, Vienna University of Economics and Business, corresponding author), Franziska Disslbacher (0000-0003-0191-0404, Vienna University of Economics and Business, corresponding author), Mathias Moser (0000-0002-9619-0384, Vienna University of Economics and Business, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-94 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-1386 • E-ISSN: 1752-1378 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cjres/rsx025 |
| OpenAlex | W2791556021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 94 |
| References cited | 26 |
Recent presidential elections in the US and Austria as well as the referendum on Brexit in the UK delivered victories or near-victories for populist right-wing candidates or agendas. In all three cases, globalisation and European integration were blamed for higher immigration and pressure on public services, deindustrialisation and job losses, and the attack on traditional values by cosmopolitan elites supported by traditional centre parties that have been unable or unwilling to control those processes. While election analysts seek to explain voting behaviour with socio-demographic characteristics of individuals, individual voting preferences also depend on the geographical context in which decisions are made. This article thus examines how long-term, regional structural economic changes, the varying impact of the Great Recession on the rise of and recovery from regional unemployment and current regional economic conditions, such as unemployment and welfare benefit losses, affect regional vote shares. In addition to those economic conditions, we examine the impact of immigration and urban size on populist vote shares. We show that regions with low, but rising immigrant shares, old industrial regions, smaller regions, those whose labour markets were exposed more and recovered less from the Great Recession, and those with high unemployment rates and benefit losses exhibited higher populist vote shares. These results are largely consistent across the three case study countries
Brexit · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Geography · Globalization · Immigration · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Recession · Referendum · Unemployment · Voting · Welfare · Media Influence and Politics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Populism
Left-behind versus unequal places
Räumliche Aspekte rechter Orientierungen Auf dem Weg zu einem konzeptionellen Rahmen
Rechtes Denken, rechte Räume?
Assessing the Social Impact of Immigration in Europe
The Rise of Populism and the Revenge of the Places That Don’t Matter
Does regional context affect populist voting? A comparative multilevel analysis from Czechia and eastern Germany
Spatial spillover effects on the support for populist radical right parties in Slovakia
Feminist_innen am Land – Fehlanzeige?! Geschlechterkonstruktionen, Intersektionalitäten und Perspektiven der Ermächtigung
The ‘right’ policy for regional development
EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth
Place, education, and voting along the transnational cleavage in Europe
Left behind in time
Long‐term decline of regions and the rise of populism
Voting Red Again
Geography of contestation
Globalization, robotization, and electoral outcomes
When do workers support executive aggrandizement? Lessons from the recent Turkish experience
Rechtes Denken, rechte Räume
When the past becomes the future
The subsidiarity trap
Have populist right supporters’ views on refugee policy radicalized under the Ukrainian crisis? Evidence from a three-wave survey experiment
Glamorous precarity
A spatial analysis of the Brexit vote in the West Midlands
Assessing Regional Variation in Support for the Radical Right-Wing Party ‘Alternative for Germany’ (AfD)—A Novel Application of Institutional Anomie Theory across German Districts
Where is the populist radical right successful? Spatial analysis of populist radical right parties in Slovakia and Czechia
Bridging the Divide Between Structural and Actor-Oriented Explanations of Populism
Different sides, same story. Common factors that contributed to the success of the populist radical parties in Spain
Between regional and neighbourhood structures
The economic geography of European Union’s discontent
Engaging with precarious urban futures
Red Vienna” and the rise of the populist right
Spatial policy since the global financial crisis
Socioeconomic geography of climate change views in Europe
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework
Perceived effects of climate policy on rural areas and agriculture
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”
Left behind and out of the loop
Geographies of feeling stuck behind and populist voting in The Netherlands
Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15
Does Cohesion Policy reduce EU discontent and Euroscepticism
Regional resentment in the Netherlands
The geography of EU discontent
Does regional decline trigger discontent? Unravelling regional development in the Netherlands
Beyond Thriving Cities and Declining Rural Areas
It’s not a very certain future”
Looking Out For (White) Australia
The Role of Economic Stress, Health Concerns, and Institutional Trust in Supporting Public Protests against Covid-19 Lockdown Measures in Denmark
Italian regional elections 2018–2020. Re-alignment beyond populism
Places that matter and places that don’t
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’
Discontent, Populism, or the Revenge of the “Places That Don’t Matter”? Analysis of the Rise of the Far-Right in Portugal
Beyond remain vs. leave
The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)
Making spatial evolution work for all? A framework for inclusive path development
Regional hierarchies of discontent
The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector
The Stockholm Syndrome
Building distributive populism
The political economy of and practical policies for inclusive growth—a case study of Scotland
The urban-rural polarisation of political disenchantment
Who gets left behind by left behind places
Places that matter
The urban-rural divide and residential contentment as antecedents of political ideology
Why are cities less opposed to European integration than rural areas? Factors affecting the Eurosceptic vote by degree of urbanization
The territorial explanation of populism
Popular imaginative geographies and Brexit
The electoral benefit of depopulation to right-wing populist parties in Estonia and Latvia
Regional inequalities as drivers of affective polarization
Drifting further apart? Europe's trends of urban-rural political polarisation should not be overstated
Spatial variation in populist right voting in Austria, 2013–2017
Is there a geography of Euroscepticism among the winners and losers of globalization
The changing geography of support for European integration in the shadow of the Ukraine war
Falling behind whom? Economic geographies of right-wing populism in Europe
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism
Identity Politics and Populism in Europe
Brexit, Division, and Individual Solidarity
Ist mehr besser? Politische Implikationen der disparaten Daseinsvorsorge in Deutschland
Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU
Place and Policy Preferences – Spatial Divides in Attitudes towards Social Policies in Germany
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory
Urban jungle, radical roar
Left Behind Together and Voting for Populism
Perceptions of regional neglect
The stories we tell ourselves
The rise of 'infrastructural populism
Re-thinking geoeconomics
Housing, place and populism
Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Regional Income Inequality in Canada
People or Places that Don't Matter? Individual and Contextual Determinants of the Geography of Discontent
Outward Foreign Direct Investments as a Catalyst of Urban-Regional Income Development? Evidence from the United States
Left Behind' neighbourhoods in England
TOWARDS GREEN Populism? Right-wing Populism and Metropolization in Switzerland
Evil or the ‘Engine of Democracy’?Populism and Party Competition in Austria
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society
Cosmopolitan Communications
Modernization and Postmodernization
Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism
The Dynamics of Social Change in Radical Right-wing Populist Party Support
Black Swans, Lame Ducks, and the mystery of IPE's missing macroeconomy
The mismatch between local voting and the local economic consequences of Brexit
The 2016 Referendum, Brexit and the Left Behind
Extreme right‐wing voting in Western Europe
Globalization and the transformation of the national political space
Voting out of the European Union
Explaining Variation In The Success Of Extreme Right Parties In Western Europe
Far Right Parties in Europe
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Working Class Votes and Conservative Losses
The Brexit vote
A Nation Divided
The vulnerable populist right parties
The Renewal of the Radical Right
Rise of the Trumpenvolk
I, the people
| Unique citing works | 94 |
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| Citations per year | 10,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 93 |