The Role of Political Sophistication in Populist Support
throughout Election Campaign

k 2023

The Role of Political Sophistication in Populist Support throughout Election Campaign

DOSTÁLOVÁ, Veronika; Tadeáš CELÝ a Jakub JUSKO

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Role of Political Sophistication in Populist Support throughout Election Campaign

Autoři

DOSTÁLOVÁ, Veronika; Tadeáš CELÝ a Jakub JUSKO

Vydání

46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), 2023

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

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Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

populist attitudes, political sophistication, issue voting, leader effect

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 19. 11. 2023 20:30, Mgr. Veronika Dostálová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Background: Existing research suggests that populist parties gain votes from informed rather than uninformed populist citizens, thus challenging the notion of populism as ‘politics for stupid people’. However, close to elections, simple populist messages may find support among politically unsophisticated individuals and consequently overshadow the moderating effect of political sophistication on the relationship between populist attitudes and populist electoral support. Purpose: To address this research gap we explore the role of political sophistication in populist support at different stages of election campaign. We specifically examine which factors pull people with different levels of political sophistication towards populist parties, focusing particularly on issue preferences and leader-related factors. Throughout election campaign, we expect politically unsophisticated individuals to be attracted to populist parties rather through leader-related factors and to be less inclined to act upon their policy preferences due to lower complexity of their reasoning. Method: We test these assumptions within the context of the 2021 Czech legislative election in which populist cleavage held a prominent position, using panel data from our online nationally representative two-wave quota survey (N = 1181). More specifically, we run a series of multi-group SEM analyses with political sophistication as the grouping variable, taking advantage of different operationalisations of political sophistication. Conclusions: Despite being limited to the Czech context, our paper contributes to better understanding of the role of political sophistication in populist support by evaluating to what extent and through which factors populist parties attract politically (un)sophisticated individuals.

Návaznosti

MUNI/IGA/1170/2020, interní kód MU

Název: Who is the Czech populist citizen? An analysis of populist attitudes of Czech citizens

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Who is the Czech populist citizen? An analysis of populist attitudes of Czech citizens

Citovat

DOSTÁLOVÁ, Veronika; Tadeáš CELÝ a Jakub JUSKO. The Role of Political Sophistication in Populist Support throughout Election Campaign. In 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). 2023.

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DOSTÁLOVÁ, Veronika; Tadeáš CELÝ a Jakub JUSKO. The Role of Political Sophistication in Populist Support throughout Election Campaign. In \textit{46th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)}. 2023.

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