The Baskerville’s dog suddenly started barking: voting for VOX in the 2019 Spanish general election
The Baskerville’s dog suddenly started barking: voting for VOX in the 2019 Spanish general election
The electoral success of the new populist radical right-wing party, VOX, which achieved an unprecedent electoral result in the Spanish general elections of April 2019, brought an end to Spain’s exceptional status as a country free of the radical right. This article asks: who votes for VOX? Empirically, we present the first assessment of electoral support for VOX at the national level. Relying on national post-electoral survey data, our results show that the electoral profile of VOX’s supporters differs from that of populist radical right-wing parties from the rest of Europe. Support for VOX, much like the voters of their European contemporaries, tends to be markedly higher amongst males; economic status, however, has the reverse effect than that observed elsewhere on the continent, with individuals on the higher end of the income distribution more likely to have voted for VOX in the April 2019 general elections. Importantly, we establish that national identity plays a large role in explaining support for the new radical right-wing challenger and that the effect of identity is conditioned by negative evaluations of the political situation in Spain.
VOX, radical right, nationalism, Spain, populism, elections, political parties, voting behaviour
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Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J.
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Rama, José
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Santana, Andrés
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2020
Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J.
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Rama, José
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Santana, Andrés
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Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J., Rama, José and Santana, Andrés
(2020)
The Baskerville’s dog suddenly started barking: voting for VOX in the 2019 Spanish general election.
Political Research Exchange, 2 (1), , [1781543].
(doi:10.1080/2474736X.2020.1781543).
Abstract
The electoral success of the new populist radical right-wing party, VOX, which achieved an unprecedent electoral result in the Spanish general elections of April 2019, brought an end to Spain’s exceptional status as a country free of the radical right. This article asks: who votes for VOX? Empirically, we present the first assessment of electoral support for VOX at the national level. Relying on national post-electoral survey data, our results show that the electoral profile of VOX’s supporters differs from that of populist radical right-wing parties from the rest of Europe. Support for VOX, much like the voters of their European contemporaries, tends to be markedly higher amongst males; economic status, however, has the reverse effect than that observed elsewhere on the continent, with individuals on the higher end of the income distribution more likely to have voted for VOX in the April 2019 general elections. Importantly, we establish that national identity plays a large role in explaining support for the new radical right-wing challenger and that the effect of identity is conditioned by negative evaluations of the political situation in Spain.
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Accepted/In Press date: 6 June 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 June 2020
Published date: 2020
Keywords:
VOX, radical right, nationalism, Spain, populism, elections, political parties, voting behaviour
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441501
ISSN: 2474-736X
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