• DOI:10.1177/0010414011427851
Corpus ID: 145071392

Who Fears What? Explaining Far-Right-Wing Preference in Europe by Distinguishing Perceived Cultural and Economic Ethnic Threats

@article{Lucassen2012WhoFW,
  title={Who Fears What? Explaining Far-Right-Wing Preference in Europe by Distinguishing Perceived Cultural and Economic Ethnic Threats},
  author={G. Lucassen and M. Lubbers},
  journal={Comparative Political Studies},
  year={2012},
  volume={45},
  pages={547 - 574}
}

• G. Lucassen, M. Lubbers
• Published 2012
• Sociology
• Comparative Political Studies

This contribution aims, first, to determine whether support for the far right is based on perceptions of cultural or economic threats posed by immigrants in 11 European countries. Second, it seeks to reanalyze the question of whether class is an important explanation for support for the far right using new measures of class and, related to this, to determine the extent to which class interacts with perceived threat to explain support for far-right parties. The study reveals that perceived… Expand

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