Detailed Information on Publication Record
2023
Fear, Anger, Hope, and Pride : Negative and Positive Emotions in Electoral Behaviour
SAXONBERG, Steven, Oľga GYÁRFÁŠOVÁ and Pavol FRIČBasic information
Original name
Fear, Anger, Hope, and Pride : Negative and Positive Emotions in Electoral Behaviour
Authors
SAXONBERG, Steven (752 Sweden, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Oľga GYÁRFÁŠOVÁ (703 Slovakia) and Pavol FRIČ (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Sociológia, Bratislava, Slovenská akadémia vied, 2023, 0049-1225
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50600 5.6 Political science
Country of publisher
Slovakia
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 0.600 in 2022
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/23:00131513
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
UT WoS
000979960400001
Keywords in English
Emotions; voting; populism; political parties; leaders
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 28/11/2023 10:55, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Abstract
V originále
It is becoming increasingly clear that emotions play a crucial role in voting decisions. This is especially true when it comes to choosing populist parties. This article uses a unique dataset to analyse the interplay between emotions and support for various types of populist parties in Slovakia. It contributes to the discourse by testing the competing hypotheses on what kinds of emotions matter in a post-communist country with multiple types of populist parties. Our results show that although previous studies have tended to concentrate on emotions toward the political or economic situation, feelings toward political leaders actually have greater importance, at least in the Slovak, post-communist context. Our study also indicates that the types of emotions differ depending on whether the populist party has already been in power or not. Contrary to expectations, fear has played a more important role than anger and in general, emotions are more important for rightwing and leftwing populist parties than for non-populist or centrist populist parties.
