Job Insecurity and Vote for Radical Parties: A Four-country Study

Gomez, Raul, Ramiro, Luis, Le Lann, Yann, Cugnata, Giuseppe and Aja, Jaime (2024) Job Insecurity and Vote for Radical Parties: A Four-country Study Electoral Studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy, 90. p. 102826. ISSN 0261-3794, 1873-6890

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Abstract

Job insecurity is a pervasive phenomenon whose effects on support for different parties have attracted increasing attention in the literature. A growing body of research has assessed the relationship between job insecurity and the success of radical parties in Western democracies, but results are still inconclusive due to the complex nature of this independent variable. This article contributes new evidence to the current debates on this topic by analyzing how both objective labour market status and perceived job insecurity are associated with the vote for radical right and radical left parties. Our findings, based on four original surveys conducted in France, Germany, Greece and Spain, suggest that perceived job insecurity is generally associated with greater support for the radical left, but not for the radical right. In contrast, we find the relationship between objective labour market status and support for radical parties to be more ambiguous (and, in most cases, statistically non-significant).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Radical left, Radical right, Job insecurity, Precariousness, Electoral behaviour, Western Europe
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2024 09:30
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2026 17:51
DOI:	10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102826
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3182569
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