Rooduijn, Matthijs. "Vox Populismus: a populist radical right attitude among the public?". Nations and Nationalism, Vol.20, No.1 (2014): 80-92.
- Populist radical right-wing parties are primarily motivated by a nativist nationalism, which constructs a divide between the 'good' citizenry and 'bad' foreigners and promises to protect against the latter. Populist radical right-wing parties also feature authoritarianism, in the sense of an emphasis on law-and-order, and anti-establishment populism (82).
- The author focuses on the Netherlandish Freedom Party [PVV], an nativist and anti-Islam party which supported a minority conservative government in 2010. The PVV views Islam as deterious to Netherlandish culture, advocates strong police responses to immigration, and criticizes the elites as 'out-of-touch' and ineffective (83).
- The methodology of this study is available from page 84 to page 86.
- Netherlandish citizens who hold anti-establishment, nativist, or authoritarian attitudes are much more likely to vote for the PVV than those who don't (87). Those who hold all three views are much more likely to vote for the PVV than those who only hold one of these views (89). No actual evidence provided for this last view since data is not disaggregated.
This short, almost pointless, political science article shows that people who are authoritarian, nativist, and populist are likely to vote for an authoritarian, nativist, and populist party. The author also claims that the combination of these views provides support for these parties, not individual views, but no evidence for this fact is actually provided.
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