| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21062 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21062 |
| Backlash in Policy Attitudes After the Election of Extreme Political Parties | |
| Magnus Carlsson; Gordon B. Dahl; Dan-Olof Rooth | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-04-06 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Far-right and far-left parties by definition occupy the fringes of politics, with policy proposals outside the mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political representation at the local level. We study attitudes towards the signature policies of two parties in Sweden, one from the far right and one from the far left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects, we compare otherwise similar elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat. We estimate that a one seat increase for the far-right, anti-immigration party decreases negative attitudes towards immigration by 1.8 or 4.1 percentage points (depending on which national survey we use). Likewise, when a far-left, anti-capitalist party politician gets elected, opposition to a six hour workday rises by 2.5 percentage points. These changes are contrary to the two parties’ policy positions. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence for higher politician turnover and a rise in negative newspaper coverage for the anti-immigration party. These findings demonstrate that political representation can cause an attitudinal backlash as fringe parties and their ideas are placed under closer scrutiny. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Economics of Information ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21062 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578736 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Magnus Carlsson,Gordon B. Dahl,Dan-Olof Rooth. Backlash in Policy Attitudes After the Election of Extreme Political Parties. 2015. |
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