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Contagious populists: The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences in Germany
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Abstract This study analyzes the role of social contagion in populist party support. Although the emergence of the German right-wing populist AfD was accompanied by controversial debates about the social acceptability of its nationalist program, electoral support has followed a clear upward trend. We analyze... mehr
This study analyzes the role of social contagion in populist party support. Although the emergence of the German right-wing populist AfD was accompanied by controversial debates about the social acceptability of its nationalist program, electoral support has followed a clear upward trend. We analyze the impact of information shocks with respect to aggregate-level support for the AfD on individual vote intentions. Unexpectedly high aggregate support for a populist party may indicate a higher social acceptance of its platform and reduce the social desirability bias in self-reported vote intentions. Consequently, the likelihood that an individual will reveal an AfD vote intention increases. We test this mechanism in an event-study approach, exploiting quasi-random variation in survey interviews conducted around the time of German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls and we link these shocks to an individual’s likelihood of reporting an AfD vote intention in subsequent survey interviews. Our results suggest that exposure to higher-than-expected AfD support significantly increases the probability of reporting an AfD vote intention by up to 2.7 percentage points. Testing alternative mechanisms, we find that this increase is in fact driven by reduced reputational concerns associated with expressing populist support.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Populismus; politische Unterstützung; Partei; soziale Erwünschtheit; Wahlverhalten; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; politische Rechte
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Contagion effects; Information shocks; Social desirability bias; ZA2391: Politbarometer 1977-2021 (Partielle Kumulation) / Partial Cumulation of Politbarometers 1977-2021 (Version 10.0.0)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 1-34
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Political Economy, 72 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102098
ISSN
0176-2680
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)