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The Electoral Success of the Extreme Right: Is the Presence of a Minority Important?
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Abstract Anti-minority rhetoric as an almost universal feature of extremeright parties is often analytically and empirically linked to their electoral success. This article tests the link between the presence of an outgroup and the vote for the extreme right in an attempt to explain the electoral success of ... view more
Anti-minority rhetoric as an almost universal feature of extremeright parties is often analytically and empirically linked to their electoral success. This article tests the link between the presence of an outgroup and the vote for the extreme right in an attempt to explain the electoral success of the first openly anti-system extreme-right party to enter the Slovak parliament in 2016. A multilevel approach is used to analyse the connection between Roma presence in a municipality and extreme-right support while controlling for the individual characteristics of voters. Analysis using exit-poll data covering 161 municipalities and 20 128 voters reveals no relationship between the presence of Roma in a municipality and support for the extreme right. A partial exception seems to be observed for older voters and the university-educated, who are generally the least inclined to far-right support. Interaction effects suggest that, for these groups, Roma presence might be connected to a higher probability to cast a vote for the extreme right. However, a notably higher chance of voting for the extreme right was associated with young, male, manual labourers and people without university education.... view less
Keywords
political right; right-wing extremist party; Slovakia; election result; success; election; gipsy; minority; regression analysis; right-wing radicalism
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
extreme-right, election, Roma, group-threat; ZA4804: European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 291-313
Journal
Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 56 (2020) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13060/csr.2020.019
ISSN
2336-128X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed