Date: 2023
Type: Article
The reverse backlash : how the success of populist radical right parties relates to more positive immigration attitudes
Public opinion quarterly, 2023, OnlineFirst
DENNISON, James, KUSTOV, Alexander, The reverse backlash : how the success of populist radical right parties relates to more positive immigration attitudes, Public opinion quarterly, 2023, OnlineFirst
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What is the relationship between the electoral success of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) and public attitudes toward immigration? Previous research suggests that PRRP success can lead to more negative attitudes due to the breaking down of antiprejudice norms and more prominent anti-immigration party cues. However, we argue that greater PRRP success could have a positive relationship with immigration attitudes, reflecting negative partisanship, polarization, and a desire to reemphasize antiprejudice norms, which we call a “reverse backlash effect.” Using the best available electoral and public opinion data across the last thirty years in twenty-four European countries, our TSCS analyses show the predominance of such “reverse backlash effects” across several operationalizations of PRRP success. Our argument has important consequences for the understanding of possible PRRP effects on public opinion, as well as attitudinal formation via party cueing and social norms more generally.
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Published online: 12 December 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76173
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfad052
ISSN: 0033-362X; 1537-5331
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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