Nationalism, Class, and Status : how Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate

Howe, Philip J.; Szöcsik, Edina; Zuber, Christina Isabel

Nationalism, Class, and Status : how Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate

Dateien

Howe_2-16b8t3u9m4xbn7.pdfGröße: 1.69 MBDownloads: 153

Datum

2022

Autor:innen

Howe, Philip J.

Szöcsik, Edina

Zuber, Christina Isabel

Publikationstyp

Zeitschriftenartikel

Publikationsstatus

Published

Erschienen in

Comparative Political Studies. Sage Publications. 2022, 55(5), pp. 832-868. ISSN 0010-4140. eISSN 1552-3829. Available under: doi: 10.1177/00104140211036033

Zusammenfassung

How do nationalist parties attract votes? This article develops a novel supply-side explanation centered on status, arguing that nationalists succeed by combining group appeals to the nation with policy promises to improve the nation’s political and cultural status and the socio-economic status of its median member. Drawing on several original datasets, this expectation is tested on Imperial Austria in 1907, where multiple nationalist parties competed in first-time mass elections. We find that group appeals to the nation and promises to improve its political and cultural status resonate very well with agricultural workers, whose economic sector was declining, but not with industrial workers, whose sector was on the rise. By contrast, offering social policy helps nationalists among industrial workers, but less clearly so among agricultural workers. This article shows that nationalist mobilization is not a mere distraction from class politics; rather, the politics of nationalism, class, and status are closely intertwined.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

320 Politik

Schlagwörter

Nationalism, radical right parties, historical elections, social status, Central and Eastern Europe

Zitieren

ISO 690

HOWE, Philip J., Edina SZÖCSIK, Christina Isabel ZUBER, 2022. Nationalism, Class, and Status : how Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate. In: Comparative Political Studies. Sage Publications. 2022, 55(5), pp. 832-868. ISSN 0010-4140. eISSN 1552-3829. Available under: doi: 10.1177/00104140211036033

BibTex

@article{Howe2022-04Natio-54770,
  year={2022},
  doi={10.1177/00104140211036033},
  title={Nationalism, Class, and Status : how Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate},
  number={5},
  volume={55},
  issn={0010-4140},
  journal={Comparative Political Studies},
  pages={832--868},
  author={Howe, Philip J. and Szöcsik, Edina and Zuber, Christina Isabel}
}

RDF

<rdf:RDF
    xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/"
    xmlns:dspace="http://digital-repositories.org/ontologies/dspace/0.1.0#"
    xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
    xmlns:void="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" > 
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/54770">
    <dc:creator>Szöcsik, Edina</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator>Howe, Philip J.</dc:creator>
    <dcterms:abstract xml:lang="eng">How do nationalist parties attract votes? This article develops a novel supply-side explanation centered on status, arguing that nationalists succeed by combining group appeals to the nation with policy promises to improve the nation’s political and cultural status and the socio-economic status of its median member. Drawing on several original datasets, this expectation is tested on Imperial Austria in 1907, where multiple nationalist parties competed in first-time mass elections. We find that group appeals to the nation and promises to improve its political and cultural status resonate very well with agricultural workers, whose economic sector was declining, but not with industrial workers, whose sector was on the rise. By contrast, offering social policy helps nationalists among industrial workers, but less clearly so among agricultural workers. This article shows that nationalist mobilization is not a mere distraction from class politics; rather, the politics of nationalism, class, and status are closely intertwined.</dcterms:abstract>
    <dc:contributor>Howe, Philip J.</dc:contributor>
    <dc:contributor>Szöcsik, Edina</dc:contributor>
    <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International</dc:rights>
    <dcterms:available rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2021-09-01T14:17:44Z</dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:issued>2022-04</dcterms:issued>
    <dc:creator>Zuber, Christina Isabel</dc:creator>
    <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/52"/>
    <dcterms:rights rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"/>
    <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://localhost:8080/"/>
    <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/42"/>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/42"/>
    <dc:contributor>Zuber, Christina Isabel</dc:contributor>
    <dc:date rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2021-09-01T14:17:44Z</dc:date>
    <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
    <dcterms:title>Nationalism, Class, and Status : how Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate</dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/52"/>
    <void:sparqlEndpoint rdf:resource="http://localhost/fuseki/dspace/sparql"/>
    <bibo:uri rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/54770"/>
    <dcterms:hasPart rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/54770/1/Howe_2-16b8t3u9m4xbn7.pdf"/>
    <dspace:hasBitstream rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/54770/1/Howe_2-16b8t3u9m4xbn7.pdf"/>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Universitätsbibliographie

Ja

Begutachtet

Ja