極右ポピュリストを支持する労働者階級と社会的アイデンティティ Social Identity and Working Class Support for the Populist Radical Right : From Economic and Political Distress to Cultural Grievances

Castater, Eric G./ Han, Kyung Joon

Oxford University Press（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198953074
• DDC分類 306.2094

Full Description

Why are blue-collar workers increasingly supporting the populist radical right in Western Europe? Previous explanations for this phenomenon suggest that it is the result of their economic and cultural grievances and their general discontent towards the political system. Social Identity and Working Class Support for the Populist Radical Right argues that these explanations are unable to account for why the working class - despite their deteriorating economic position in recent decades - would prefer to vote for a party family that they agree with more on cultural issues (the populist radical right) than economic issues (the populist radical or mainstream left).

To explain this puzzle, the book develops a theory utilizing the literature on social identity. It argues and empirically finds that political and economic conditions relatively unfavourable to the working class increase blue-collar worker support for the populist radical right in Western Europe by strengthening these workers' national identity and thus also the salience they place on cultural issues. Castater and Han's analysis suggests that if governing parties desire to reduce support for the populist radical right, they should incorporate labour organizations into the welfare state reform process, enact economic policies that improve the well-being of a broad swath of the working class, and reduce the types of economic inequality that most affect blue-collar workers.

Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: Populist Radical Right-wing Parties and the Working Class
3: A Social Identity Approach to Blue-Collar Worker Support for the Populist Radical Right
4: The Policymaking Process: Economic Reforms and Support for the Populist Radical Right
5: Policy Outputs: Labour Policies and Support for the Populist Radical Right
6: Policy Outcomes: Economic Inequality and Support for the Populist Radical Right
7: Concluding Remarks
Appendix A: A Multinomial Logistic Analysis of Social Identity
Appendix B: Robustness Checks with the International Social Survey Programme (2013)
Appendix C: Results of First-Stage Models in Causal Mediation Analyses
Appendix D: A Robustness Check with Excluding Country/Years without a PRRP
Appendix E: A Robustness Check with a Country Fixed-Effect Model
References
Index