Personality and voting for a right-wing populist party: evidence from Switzerland
Many established democracies are currently challenged by populist parties and movements. Switzerland is a particularly interesting case because it has an established right-wing populist party that is part of the governmental coalition on a regular basis: the Swiss People's Party (SVP). We study...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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10 December 2018
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Swiss political science review
Year: 2018, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 545-564 |
| ISSN: | 1662-6370 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12330 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12330 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spsr.12330 
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| Author Notes: | Kathrin Ackermann, Eros Zampieri and Markus Freitag |
| Summary: | Many established democracies are currently challenged by populist parties and movements. Switzerland is a particularly interesting case because it has an established right-wing populist party that is part of the governmental coalition on a regular basis: the Swiss People's Party (SVP). We study the electoral success of the SVP from a psychological perspective and argue that dispositions captured by the Big Five personality traits are related to voting for the SVP. Analyzing data from the Swiss Electoral Study (Selects) 2015, we find support for a negative relationship between openness to experience and agreeableness and voting for the SVP as well as a positive relationship between conscientiousness and extraversion and voting for this right-wing populist party. Additional analyses indicate that attitudes toward immigration mediate these relationships to some degree. Agreeableness and conscientiousness are, however, still systematically related to voting for the SVP when attitudinal factors are controlled for. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 14.04.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1662-6370 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12330 |