Understanding populist party electorate in Europe: A study of left-wing populist and right-wing populist parties after the crisis

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This thesis aims to explain the behaviour behind voting for radical populist parties. Previous studies have found often conflicting results regarding the characteristics of populist party voters, some suggesting modern populist party voter do not fit the traditional norms of populist party voters. This study argues after the economic crisis, populist parties have returned to their traditional electorate. By focusing on populist parties based on their classification in PopuList dataset and using data from Round 8 of European Social Survey for voters; their characteristics have been analysed for both left and right wing populist parties. This study focuses on the political views and socio-economic status of populist party voters. Results indicate “losers of globalization” hypothesis is no longer viable to explain voting for populist parties. They are different from their predecessors and same logic cannot be applied to these groups. Even though both are voting for populist parties, politically right-wing and left-wing voters are not the same. They are divided by ideological lines.

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Populism, Populist Party Electorate, Right-Wing Populism, Left-Wing Populism

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/69302

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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A. O. Gitmez, “Understanding populist party electorate in Europe: A study of left-wing populist and right-wing populist parties after the crisis,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2020.