MIGRATION, CORRUPTION, AND IDEOLOGICAL CENTRISM: EXPLANATIONS OF ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT ATTITUDES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

• Authors: Škvarenina Ondrej , Havlík Vlastimil , Dostálová Veronika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Although the Czech Republic has experienced an unprecedented rise of anti-establishment political parties in recent decades, a systematic examination of anti-establishment attitudes among the public is still missing from the scholarly literature. This paper tests different explanation for anti-establishment attitudes among the voting population. It is working with the concepts of anti-political establishment parties, populism, and taking into account the specific national context. Using original data from the 2017 Czech National Election Study (N = 919), we show that anti-establishment attitudes among the Czech public stem from feelings of low political efficacy, the perceived salience of corruption, and anti-immigration attitudes. These results demonstrate that researchers need to consider contextual specifics, including the nature of diverse anti-establishment actors, when searching for the causes of anti-establishment attitudes in a particular country or region.

Keywords

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ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT POLITICS; ATTITUDES; PUBLIC OPINION; CZECH REPUBLIC; POPULISM

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 287 – 308

Contributors

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Škvarenina Ondrej

• Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Joštova 10, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

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Havlík Vlastimil

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Dostálová Veronika

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.11