CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Springer, Franz Gabriel |
|---|---|
| Title | A Holistic Approach to Populism: (Right-wing) Populist Voting Dynamics in the 2017 Federal Elections in Germany with Respect to Cultural and Socio-economic Determinants |
| Summary | With the ideational approach to populism, scholars established a minimal definition that al-lows studying populism regardless of ideological loadings or regional characteristics among the supply and the demand side of the political system. Building on the insights of the idea-tional approach, in this thesis I examine under which circumstances individuals with populist attitudes do actually cast their vote in favor of populist parties on the example of the 2017 federal elections in Germany. Choosing a holistic approach to populism, I study both the supply and the demand side of the political system by analyzing an expert survey, campaign manifestos and a public opinion survey. Considering comparative populist research, in par-ticular socio-economic and cultural approaches to populism, I find dissatisfaction with de-mocracy and established parties as essential conditioning factors of a populist voting deci-sion. Furthermore, the data shows that worries about a potential status loss constitute an im-portant indirect effect on (right-wing) populist voting behavior but are rather insignificant compared to outgroup rejection. |
| Supervisor | Luca Váradi |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/springer_franz.pdf |
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