ArticleZeitschrift fur vergleichende politikwissenschaft2023
Existential anxieties and right-wing populism in Europe-why people unconcerned by globalisation vote against it.
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- How to explain the German East-West divide in support of a populist radical right party (AfD): mapping socioeconomic, psychological, and cultural explanatory factors from a demand-side, voter-level perspective.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- The importance of teaching climate-health literacy in psychotherapeutic training and continuing education.F1000Research · 2023Article
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Abstract
In recent years several contributions have made the argument that right-wing populist voting is interrelated with individuals being negatively affected by globalisation. While there is certainly merit to this argument, it cannot explain why voters unconcerned by globalisation vote for right-wing populist parties. In this article we answer this question and argue that ontological insecurity or, the way we frame it, existential anxieties are a previously overlooked determinant of right-wing populist voting, as these anxieties make people vulnerable to right-wing populist crises narratives even when they are not affected by the crises. Using European Social Survey data for 12 Western European countries between 2004 and 2018, we construct a novel index that measures existential anxieties on the individual level. Our index shows (1) that existential anxieties increase the likelihood of right-wing populist voting and (2) that the fear fuelling narratives of these parties especially mobilise individuals with moderate globalisation attitudes.
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