Place-based resentment in an egalitarian welfare state
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5720180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kiran Rose Auerbach (0000-0003-0222-190X, University of Zurich), Marta R Eidheim (0000-0001-8187-2836, University of Bergen, corresponding author), Anne Lise Fimreite (0000-0003-0936-2377, University of Bergen) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Pages | 103161 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-6298 • E-ISSN: 1873-5096 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103161 |
| OpenAlex | W4400386520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 38 |
A divide between people in rural areas and in cities contributes to the current wave of populist backlash and the realignment of party systems across Western democracies. Does place-based resentment also exist and influence vote choice in an egalitarian welfare state, and if so, what is its basis? Building on the literature of place resentment and social identities, we examine place-based resentment in the Norwegian context. Employing original survey data, we measure rural-urban resentment by comparing the difference in an individual's in-group and out-group sentiment. We find that rural voters are more resentful of urbanites. Despite extensive redistributive public policies, a sense of unfair resource distribution spurs greater rural resentment than a cultural grievance. In response to current debates in the American and West European scholarship, our findings illustrate that rural resentment can develop in contexts where rural voters are not economically marginalized. Rural resentment also explains voting for the center-left agrarian party. Our work demonstrates the importance of place-based social identities in explaining rural political backlash in advanced democracies. Moreover, rural backlash does not always strengthen the populist right
Grievance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resentment · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics
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A Registered Report on Place-Based Resentment
Redistribution between people and places
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Place-based resentment and party support in multiparty systems
Party systems and voter alignments
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The Politics of Resentment
Us Over Here Versus Them Over There…Literally
The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it)
The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway
Rural decline and satisfaction with democracy
Place resentment in ‘the places that don’t matter’
The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe
Faith no more? The divergence of political trust between urban and rural Europe
Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises
Globalization and the transformation of the national political space
Cosmopolitan Immigration Attitudes in Large European Cities
Do they feel like they don’t matter? The rural-urban divide in external political efficacy
Norwegian centre–periphery relations in flux
The Social Divisions of Politics
The 1994 EU Referendum in Norway
What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization
Country Bumpkin or City Slicker? The Role of Place of Living and Place-Based Identity in Explaining Place-Based Resentment
Place-Based Imagery and Voter Evaluations
Feeling Out of Place
You’re Not From Here
The Urban–Rural Gulf in American Political Behavior
Place, Race, and the Geographic Politics of White Grievance
Measuring the Rural Continuum in Political Science
The janus-faced nature of radical voting
Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany
Does Class-Based Campaigning Work? How Working Class Appeals Attract and Polarize Voters
Geographic Divides and Cosmopolitanism
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice
Group Consciousness and Political Participation
The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
Affect, Not Ideology
Asymmetries in urban, suburban, and rural place-based resentment
Symbolic versus material concerns of rural consciousness in the United States
Why some places don't seem to matter
Old and New Patterns
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |