Citizens' candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections

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作者
Helske, Satu [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Kawalerowicz, Juta [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Turku, INVEST Res Flagship Ctr, Turku, Finland
[2] Univ Turku, Dept Social Res, Turku, Finland
[3] Linkoping Univ, Inst Analyt Sociol, Norrkoping, Sweden
[4] Stockholm Univ, Dept Human Geog, Svante Arrhenius Vag 8, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
关键词
Radical right-wing; Political candidates; Ethnic threat; Economic insecurity; Labor market participation trajectories; EXTREME-RIGHT; COMPETITION; IMMIGRANTS; ATTITUDES; POLITICS; EUROPE; PARTY;
D O I
10.1057/s41269-023-00304-8
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks and relative growth in the number of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Democrats, the main radical right-wing party in Sweden, as opposed to running for mainstream political parties. We find that the labour market trajectories of such candidates are markedly different from those of mainstream party candidates. Those with turbulent or out-of-labour market trajectories are much more likely to run for the Sweden Democrats, as opposed to other parties. The same is also true for candidates embedded in social networks with higher levels of unemployment, while working in a high-skilled industry markedly lowers the probability of running for the Sweden Democrats, especially for male candidates with low educational attainment. We find mixed results for the ethnic threat hypothesis.
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页码:694 / 717
页数:24
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